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Hong Kong Police Raid Tiananmen Museum, Charge Founders With ‘Subversion’ Hong Kong’s national security police on Thursday charged the organizers of a now-banned candlelight vigil commemorating the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen massacre with “subversion,” following a raid on a museum they founded to preserve historical records of the bloodshed. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, its former leaders Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho and current vice chair Chow Hang-tung have been charged with “incitement to subvert state power.” Chow and four other Alliance members have also been charged with “failing to comply with a…
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