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Court convicts 2 organizers of Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigils in national security case

August 21, 2026

Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were convicted Friday of inciting subversion under a China-imposed national security law that has effectively crushed the city’s pro-democracy movement. An earlier version of this email news alert erroneously stated that the verdict involved incitement to sedition.

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