Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan, and Tsui Hon-kwong were convicted last Saturday of failing to comply with a notice from national security police demanding information.
HEADER IMAGE: Principal Magistrate Peter Law. Photo: Judiciary.
Three former members of the defunct organiser of Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen vigils have been sentenced to four-and-a-half months in jail after they were convicted of not complying with a national security police data request.
Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan, and Tsui Hon-kwong appeared at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Saturday in front of Principal Magistrate Peter Law, one of the city’s handpicked national security judges.
All three were former standing committee members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the group behind the city’s annual candlelight vigils to remember the victims of the Tiananmen crackdown.
Two other defendants, Simon Leung and Chan To-wai, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to three months in prison.
Chow, Tang and Tsui were convicted last Saturday of failing to comply with a notice from national security police demanding information.
According to the implementation rules of the Beijing-imposed national security law, after receiving approval from the secretary for security, the police chief can issue a notice to foreign political groups and their agents demanding information including financial records.
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