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Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists found guilty of inciting subversion

Police officers stand near the media area outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts ahead of the verdict in the national security trial of two pro-democracy Tiananmen activists in Hong Kong. (Photo: AFP)

HONG KONG - A Hong Kong court found on Friday two activists, who organised annual vigils marking China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, guilty of "incitement to subversion".

Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, "incited other persons to organise, plan, commit or participate in acts by unlawful means with a view to subverting the state power", a press summary handed out to reporters said.

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