Chow Hang-tung is a brilliant young human rights lawyer imprisoned in Hong Kong for organizing vigils to commemorate the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.
In March, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal ruled in favour of Chow Hang-tung and two other Tiananmen vigil activists. The police had accused them of being “foreign agents” and charged them with inciting subversion. The five judges of the Court of Final Appeal ruled that a lower court had made serious errors in their case.
Despite this court victory, Chow Hang-tung remains in prison because of other allegations made against her. Amnesty International supporters have long spoken in defense of Chow Hang-tung, with many supporters adding their names to a petition demanding that the Hong Kong authorities free her.