Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigil activist admits subversion, 2 deny national security charges

A former vice-chairman of the group behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil is facing up to 10 years in jail after he admitted advocating an end to Communist Party rule in mainland China in breach of the national security law. Former opposition lawmaker Albert Ho Chun-yan, 74, on Thursday pleaded guilty to inciting subversion for promoting an end to “one-party dictatorship”, one of the five operational objectives of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic...