AP
Two Chinese activists who kept an online repository of banned articles on the coronavirus pandemic stood trial in Beijing on Tuesday, while a journalist was attacked by unidentified thugs in Hong Kong.
Chen Mei and Cai Wei stood trial at the Chaoyang District People s Court in Beijing, on charges of picking quarrels and stirring up trouble, a charge frequently used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
According to Chen Mei s brother, Chen Kun, their mother and Cai Wei s father were allowed to attend the trial, which lasted around 100 minutes.
The pair were accused in the indictment of posting around 600 articles to their Terminus2049 page on Github, creating a repository of censored and deleted articles about the early weeks of the pandemic in China, according to the indictment against them.