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No ‘red line’ for approving assemblies but security threats remain: police chief

Hong Kong’s police commissioner warns national security risks remain despite landmark conviction and imprisonment of Tiananmen vigil organisers

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Thousands of residents gathered in Victoria Park in 2019 to commemorate the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. It was the last such assembly in Hong Kong before the promulgation of the national security law a year later. Photo: Winson Wong
Hong Kong police chief Joe Chow says the city must remain vigilant to national security threats despite the recent conviction of three leaders of a now-defunct pro-democracy group for inciting subversion. Photo: Sam Tsang
Edith LinandEmily Hung
There is no “red line” for approving public assemblies, Hong Kong’s police chief has said, while warning that national security risks persist despite the landmark conviction and imprisonment of organisers behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil for inciting subversion.

The government on Saturday also strongly condemned Western countries, anti-China media, overseas organisations and politicians for launching “malicious attacks” over the trial of the disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which concluded on Friday.

Former alliance chairman Lee Cheuk-yan and former vice-chairwoman Chow Hang-tung were sentenced to seven years and seven years and three months behind bars, respectively. Former vice-chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan, who pleaded guilty ahead of the trial, was sentenced to five years and two months.

They were convicted last month after three High Court judges found they had incited public hatred towards the Communist Party and advocated the group’s illegal agenda through various public events, including the annual June 4 vigil, which was the only large-scale public gathering on Chinese soil to remember the 1989 crackdown in Beijing.

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