Hong Kong’s top court has overturned activist and human rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung’s acquittal over inciting people to take part in an unauthorised assembly in 2021 to remember the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
n December 2022, Chow, formerly vice-chair of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China – the organisation behind the city’s annual vigils to remember the 1989 crackdown – saw her conviction related to the banned 2021 event quashed.
The Court of Final Appeal last November heard an appeal by the Department of Justice in June against her acquittal, after she was handed a 15-month jail sentence in January 2022 for inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly. Police had banned the previous year’s vigil, citing Covid-19 pandemic curbs.
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