Tiananmen Protests
National security trial opens for Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigil organisers
A trial against two pro-democracy activists behind a group that for decades organized a vigil that commemorated people killed in Beijing's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 opened Thursday, in another landmark case brought under a China-imposed national security law that has practically crushed protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. Critics say their case shows that Beijing's promise to keep the city's Western-style civil liberties intact for 50 years when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997 has weakened over time. But the city's government said its law enforcement actions were evidence-based and strictly in accordance with the law. Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan, former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, were charged with incitement to subversion in September 2021 under the law. They are accused of inciting others to organize, plan or act through unlawful means with a view to subvert state power, .
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Protests in China are not rare - but the current unrest is significant
Street protests across China have evoked memories of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations that were brutally quashed in 1989
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Young Hongkongers boycott Tiananmen vigil
Young activists turned their backs on the candle-lit vigil as calls grow for greater autonomy from China
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China asked to allow public discussion of Tiananmen protests
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to lift restrictions on public discussion of the protests
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