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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hong Kong – 6 March 2024
1. Various of Court of Final Appeal
2. Various of police outside Court of Final Appeal
3. Wide of Tang Ngok-kwan, former member of Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, outside court
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tang Ngok-kwan, former member of Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China:
"Very happy."
(Reporter asks off camera: Can you explain what happened inside the court today?)
"I think we will have a long road to run again, because it’s not finished, OK thank you."
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ARCHIVE: Hong Kong – 4 June 2020
++DAY SHOTS++
5. Various of Hong Kong Alliance members and crowd of local people at last ceremony in Hong Kong to remember the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing
++NIGHT SHOTS++
6. Various of Hong Kong Alliance members and crowd of local people at last ceremony in Hong Kong to remember the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing with a candlelight vigil
STORYLINE:
Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil to remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown won their bid at the top court on Thursday.
Their bid was to overturn their conviction after they refused to give information to police.
It is a rare victory for activists calling for democracy in Hong Kong.
Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were convicted in 2023 during Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.
They received a sentence of 4 1/2 months and have already served their terms.
One of the three, Tang Ngok-kwan, who is free, said outside the court on Thursday that he is happy, but there is "a long road to run."
The three are core members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China.
The alliance had organized candlelight vigils Hong Kong for decades on the anniversary of the Chinese military’s crushing of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing.
But it voted to disband in 2021 under the shadow of a sweeping national security law imposed on Hong Kong by China.
Critics said it showed the city’s Western-style civil liberties were shrinking despite promises they would stay intact when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
Before the group dissolved, police had sought details about its operations and finances in connection with alleged links to pro-democracy groups overseas.
Police also accused it of being a foreign agent. But the group refused to cooperate, insisting it was not.
On Thursday, judges at the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal unanimously ruled in the trio’s favor.
Chief Justice Andrew Cheung announced the decision in court.
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