Court convicts 2 organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigils in national security case

Two organizers, Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, faced charges of inciting subversion in a national security case related to Hong Kong's 1989 Tiananmen Square commemoration under a China-imposed law. They, along with their organization, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, pleaded not guilty to facing up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Observers view this trial as symbolizing the decline of freedom of expression in the former British colony.