Hong Kong court hands up to seven years in prison to Tiananmen vigil activists

A Hong Kong court has sentenced three organizers of annual Tiananmen vigil commemorations to prison terms of five to more than seven years under the city's national security law.

• The court sentenced Lee Cheuk-yan to seven years and Chow Hang-tung to seven years and three months for inciting subversion, and Albert Ho to five years and two months after pleading guilty.
• The court also fined the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars ($191,000).
• Taiwan's government condemned the verdicts, with its Mainland Affairs Council saying authorities had "fabricated charges and conducted political trials in the name of national security to shield an authoritarian regime."
• Lee's wife, Elizabeth Tang, said he would "definitely appeal" his sentence.