Three former members of a Hong Kong group that organized annual vigils to mark China’s 1989 Tiananmen Sq. crackdown have been discovered responsible of not complying with a nationwide safety police request for info.
The magistrates’ court docket verdict on Saturday included outstanding Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and barrister Chow Grasp-tung, 38, who was the previous vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Assist of Patriotic Democratic Actions in China.
The now-disbanded alliance was the primary organizer of Hong Kong’s June four candlelight vigil for victims of China’s Tiananmen Sq. crackdown.
The annual vigil drew tens of 1000’s of individuals within the largest public commemoration of its form on Chinese language soil.
-AAP
