Tiananmen Vigil Convictions Highlight Collapse of Freedoms in Hong Kong

Responding to the jailing after convictions for "unauthorized assembly" of 12 people who took part in a peaceful vigil to mark the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4 last year, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Director Yamini Mishra said: "The jailing of 12 Hongkongers who took part in an entirely peaceful, but 'unauthorized', vigil to commemorate the victims of China's violent Tiananmen crackdown is another outrageous attack on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. "Depressingly, this unjust verdict was entirely expected amid the accelerating collapse of human rights in Hong Kong - exemplified by the recent targeting of the…