The general secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), Lee Cheuk Yan, together with seven others, was sentenced on 12 December 2021 to 14 months in prison for “inciting, organising and participating” in a candlelight vigil on 4 June 2020.
The annual event, held to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was organised by the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, of which Lee Cheuk Yan was the chair. The HKCTU had also been forced to disband.
The sentence will run concurrently with the 20-month prison sentence Lee Cheuk Yan was already serving for organising and participating in a pro-democracy rally in 2019.
