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Subversion org4/11/2023 ![]() ![]() On 15 September 2021, Chow Hang-tung appeared before the West Kowloon Magistrates Court for her first bail review hearing since she was charged with and denied bail a week ago over the charges of "inciting subversion of State power" and "failing to provide information" to the police under Hong Kong's national security law. On 25 September 2021, at an extraordinary General Meeting, the Hong Kong Alliance's member organisations voted 41-4 to dissolve the Alliance. The judge denied her bail on the same basis as the last review, that he has "insufficient ground for believing she would not continue to commit acts endangering national security." The woman human rights defender's next bail review is scheduled for 30 September 2021 at the same court. On 24 September 2021, vice chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance Chow Hang-tung appeared before the West Kowloon Magistrates Court for her second bail review hearing. Her next bail review is scheduled for 21 October 2021, which also coincides with the pre-trial review for the case in which Chow Hang-tung and four other former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance are being prosecuted for failure to provide information to the police under the national security law. The judge said on both occasions that he did not see any "key changes" in Chow Hang-tung's situation to warrant provision of bail. On 30 September and 11 October 2021, the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court denied bail to woman human rights defender Chow Hang-tung for the third and fourth times, respectively. However, Chow Hang-tung remains in remand on a separate charge of "inciting subversion of State power", for which she and two other human rights defenders are scheduled to be mentioned in the same court on 28 October 2021. On 22 October 2021, the presiding judge granted bail, for the first time, to the woman human rights defender and the other four human rights defenders. On 21 October 2021, the West Kowloon Magistrates Court conducted the first pre-trial review in the case where Chow Hang-tung and four other former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance are being prosecuted for "failing to provide information" requested by the Hong Kong police under the national security law. This case will go to trial from 13-19 July 2022.Īs of 31 December 2021, the West Kowloon Magistrates Court has rejected woman human rights defender Chow Hang-tung's bail applications for ten times. ![]() ![]() On 29 June 2022, the West Kowloon Magistrates Court held the final committal proceeding in the case against woman human rights defender Chow Hang-tung in which she is facing the charge of "failing to comply with notice to provide information" as requested by the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force in August 2021. On 4 March 2023, a Hong Kong government-designated national security judge at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court convicted woman human rights defender Chow Hang-tung and two other leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the Hong Kong Alliance) for refusing to comply with the Hong Kong police’s request in August 2021 demanding disclosure of extensive information about its funding, activities, Board members, executives, and staff. ![]()
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