Chow Hang-tung, center, vice chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, speaks to the media in June 2021 before facing charges related to a vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. © Reuters
HONG KONG (Reuters) -- Hong Kong's top court unanimously overturned on Thursday the convictions of three former members of a pro-democracy group that organized an annual candlelight vigil to mark China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, citing a miscarriage of justice.
The ruling is a rare victory for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement in which scores of activists have been jailed or forced into exile, with many liberal and popular civil society groups shuttered.