Top Court Restores Hong Kong Activist's Conviction Over Banned Tiananmen Vigil

FILE - Chow Hang-tung, vice chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democratic Patriotic Movements of China, in 2021. Hong Kong’s top court on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, restored her conviction over a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

Hong Kong's top court on Thursday restored a prominent detained activist's conviction over a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, marking the latest setback for the city's democracy supporters.