Trial for HK’s Tiananmen vigil organizers beginsAP, HONG KONGA trial against two pro-democracy activists behind a group that for decades organized a vigil that commemorated people killed in Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre opened today, in another landmark case brought under China-imposed national security legislation that has practically crushed protests in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China holds a vigil commemorating people killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Massacre in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, on June 4, 2019. The prosecution this morning began reading out the case details about Ho, and had not yet started its case. Trial expected to last 75 daysThree government-vetted judges are to preside over the trial, which is expected to last 75 days. The court would not allow the trial to become a tool of political suppression in the name of law, the judges said.

Source: Taipei Times January 22, 2026 04:47 UTC