Three former members of a Hong Kong group that organised annual vigils to mark China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, were found guilty on Saturday of not complying with a national security police request for information.
During the trial that only kicked off late last year more than a year after the defendants were arrested, the Alliance was accused by government prosecutor Ivan Cheung of being a "foreign agent" for an unnamed group, after allegedly receiving HK$20,000 from it.
"The existence of an independent organisation like us that can check power, is essential to the security of a nation, not a threat," she told the court. Sentencing is expected on March 11 with a maximum jail term of six months for this particular offence. Some key details of the case, including the overseas organisations and individuals alleged to have ties to the Alliance, were kept confidential after the prosecutor applied for "Public Interest Immunity" , arguing these disclosures would the harm public interest.
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