Hong Kong police arrest Tiananmen vigil organizers

Hong Kong police charged the group that organises the city's annual candlelight vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown - and three of its leaders - with subversion under the national security law.

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China said that the group, its chairman, Lee Cheuk-yan as well as vice-chairs Albert Ho and Chow Hang-tung, were charged with "inciting subversion of state power."

Lee and Ho are currently already serving jail terms for their roles in unauthorised protests in 2019.

Chow, together with four others who were arrested this week, were also charged with failing to comply with the requirement to provide information for a national security investigation.

Police on Thursday raided the closed June 4 museum, which was run by the alliance to commemorate the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing on June 4, 1989, and confiscated computers and documents from the venue.