Members of theHong Kong Alliance for the Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China gathered signatures to show solidarity with the Tiananmen Mothers victims group ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre on June 4 in Hong Kong, May 9, 2021. Hong Kong Alliance for the Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China
Residents of Hong Kong have no right to jury trial under a draconian national security law imposed on the city by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the city s department of justice said on Monday.
Prosecutors bringing charges of terrorism and inciting secession against 24-year-old Tong Ying-kit after he flew a protest flag on the day the law took effect said that defendants in Hong Kong do not have a constitutional or fundamental right to trial by jury.
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US Calls On Hong Kong To Release Tiananmen Vigil Activists
05/07/21 AT 2:30 AM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for the release Friday of four Hong Kong democracy activists who were jailed for taking part in a vigil for victims of Beijing s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The United States stands with the people of Hong Kong and rejects the sentencing of activists for attending a Tiananmen commemoration, Blinken wrote on Twitter. All those imprisoned for nonviolent exercise of guaranteed freedoms should be freed immediately, he added.
Joshua Wong, Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen and Janelle Leung four prominent youth activists in their twenties were jailed after pleading guilty to taking part in an unauthorised assembly last year on the 4 June Tiananmen anniversary.
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