Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists lose bid to take challenge against convictions over data demand to top court
A Hong Kong court has refused three activists’ applications to challenge their convictions over refusing to comply with a data request from national security police at the city’s top court. Chow Hang-tung, a human rights lawyer and the former vice-chair of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements, the group that once organised the city’s annual candlelight vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, represented herself in court on Wednesday. Chow appeared before High Court Judge Anna Lai along with former Alliance members Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong ...