Tiananmen Square vigil organisers lose appeal to overturn conviction
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Three former organisers of a vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests have lost their appeal to overturn their convictions because they wouldn't give authorities information on the group under sweeping national security laws.

Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were core members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, before it disbanded under the shadow of the Beijing-imposed law in 2021.

They received a sentence of four and a half months last year — widely seen as part of a crackdown on dissidents following massive pro-democracy protests in 2019.

The alliance was long known for organising candlelight vigils in the city on the anniversary of the Chinese military’s crushing of the 1989 protests in Beijing.