A Hong Kong court on Monday (November 3, 2025) rejected a former Tiananmen vigil organiser’s attempt to quash her indictment, pressing ahead with a landmark case widely seen as part of a years-long crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement.

Chow Hang-tung, a former leader of the group that organised a decades-old vigil to remember China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, was charged in 2021 with inciting subversion, which carries a maximum penalty of life

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