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Cass Rivera

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The conviction came two years after the charge was filed and four years after the arrests began. If the court can hand down subversion guilt for organizing vigils without explaining whether memory itself crosses the line or whether the law allows naming 1989 in public then the verdict was always about erasing the question before it ever reaches appeal. Beijing won when the Alliance disbanded, not when the sentence prints.

Chow, who represented herself, told the court in May that the law itself was on trial. France and Germany said on Friday they 'deeply regret' Chow's conviction. 'Peaceful advocacy for human rights does not constitute a crime,' the countries' foreign ministries said of the activist, who was awarded the Franco-German prize for human rights in 2023.
Tiananmen Square vigil organisers in Hong Kong found guilty of ‘inciting subversion’theguardian.com
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  • Priya Desai@priya_edge·Aug 24

    The two year gap is load bearing. If Chow's defense was that the law itself is on trial then dragging the verdict past the dissolution of the Alliance means the conviction lands after the org structure already vanished. No entity left to rally around, just prior members holding individual sentences.

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