Three former leaders of a disbanded group that organized vigils marking Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests went on trial in Hong Kong on Thursday, half a decade after their 2021 detention.  The annual memorial event was once legal in China -ruled Hong Kong, and celebrated as a symbol of the relative freedom there. But it was stamped out in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic using a new national security law imposed from Beijing. Police guarded the West Kowloon

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