Hong Kong: Drop Charges Against Vigil Organizers

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Police officers take away a cardboard cutout of the image of Goddess of Democracy from the June 4th Museum as an evidence, in Hong Kong, September 9, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Kin Cheung (New York) – Hong Kong’s government should drop all charges against leaders of the civic group that had been holding annual mass vigils in Victoria Park commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in China, 61 Hong Kong and international human rights groups said today. On September 9, 2021, the Hong Kong justice secretary charged the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic…

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