Hong Kong court convicts Tiananmen vigil organisers Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung
A verdict is expected on Friday in the trial of former Tiananmen vigil organizers Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung @kanisleung.bsky.social apnews.com/article/tian...
YTSL10I am already feeling depressed by the expected guilty verdict. To be clear: I don't think/believe that Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung are guilty of "inciting subversion". But I still think the judges will rule that did and thus continue to keep them locked up for too many years.
Jarrod Watt930 years of peaceful Tiananmen vigils in Hong Kong ended in 2020: "...the only large-scale, public commemoration in China that attracted tens of thousands annually... prosecutors argued they incited others to use unlawful means to topple China’s fundamental system and central political bodies..."
Hong Kong judges convict organisers for decades-long Tiananmen vigils: "the three judges said the prosecution proved that the alliance’s call for “end one-party dictatorship”... [and] the “end” in the phrase carried the meaning of “overthrowing” and “undermining”..." 1/2 apnews.com/article/hong...
Thomas Batchelor8China loves to tout its "people's democracy" and the existence of the "democratic parties" but if you make a comment against one-party rule it's considered overthrowing the system
YTSL8BTW, hasn't the CCP and/or some of its Wumao/Little Pink supporters maintained that the PRC is actually democratic rather than a dictatorship?
