Human rights lawyer and labour rights advocate Chow Hang-tung, currently imprisoned, was charged for “inciting subversion” under the National Security Law (NSL) in September 2021 and faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years. Together with other core members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the Alliance), she was targeted simply for peacefully commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

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The right to protest is under unprecedented and growing threat across all regions of the world, Amnesty International said today, as the organization launched a new global campaign to confront states’ widening and intensifying efforts to erode this fundamental human right.