Prosecutors said Chow Hang-Tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were under foreign influence but refused to say who it was
court has jailed three former members of a group that organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China.
The three were jailed on Saturday for four-and-a-half months for not complying with a national security police request for information. “We will continue doing what we have always done, that is to fight falsehood with truth, indignity with dignity, secrecy with openness, madness with reason, division with solidarity. We will fight these injustices wherever we must, be it on the streets, in the courtroom or from a prison cell,” Chow said from the dock, in a speech that was interrupted several times by the magistrate, Peter Law.The custodial sentence is less than the six-month maximum jail term for the charge.
Some key details of the case were redacted, including the overseas organisations and individual alleged to have ties to the Alliance, after the prosecution applied for “public interest immunity”.The Alliance was accused by the prosecutor, Ivan Cheung, of being a “foreign agent” for an unidentified organisation from which it allegedly receiving HK$20,000 .
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