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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kanis Leung

3 Tiananmen vigil organizers set to be sentenced in Hong Kong national security case

Hong Kong Tiananmen Trial - (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A Hong Kong court is set to sentence Friday three activists who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, in a case that is widely seen as a barometer of the city's freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.

Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho face up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of inciting subversion earlier this year under a Beijing-imposed national security law.

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