An activist behind the annual Tiananmen Square vigil in Hong Kong was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Jan. 4 for inciting others to participate in an unauthorized assembly in 2021 to commemorate the victims of the June 4, 1989, massacre at the hands of the Chinese regime.
“It can be foreseen that the public space to discuss June 4 will disappear entirely,” Chow Hang-tung told the court in tears after being sentenced. “Tyranny is greedy, red lines will keep expanding.”