Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil organizers sentenced to up to 7 years under national security law

In Hong Kong, a court has sentenced the organizers of annual Tiananmen Square vigils to prison terms of up to seven years and three months under national security law — a verdict that marks not merely the punishment of individuals, but the formal criminalization of collective memory. For decades, the June 4th candlelight gatherings at Victoria Park stood as one of the last public spaces where the events of 1989 could be openly mourned; now, the act of organizing that mourning has been recast as a threat to the state. What is being extinguished here is not only a tradition, but the civic unders