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A top Hong Kong court overturned the convictions of three pro-democracy activists who organised a vigil in remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
They were initially sentenced to four and a half months in prison for failing to comply with a police demand for information about their group.
The Court of Final Appeal, led by chief justice Andrew Cheung, said the prosecution needed to prove the group were a foreign agent and did not do so.
This is a rare victory for the pro-democracy movement, which has been dismantled by a sweeping National Security Law introduced by Beijing in 2020.
Since then many non-permanent overseas judges have quit the top court.
Cheung has previously said these departures didn’t show the independence of the judiciary was weakening.
Others may disagree. On Thursday, a jailed pro-democracy Hong Kong radio host lost his appeal for “uttering seditious words”.
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