‘We see everyone’s love’: acquitted defendants after Hong Kong national security trial

Fourteen people have been found guilty of ‘conspiracy to subvert state power’ by holding unofficial election primaries in 2020, in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial.

Two defendants, the former district councillor Laurence Lau Wai-chung and the former social worker Lee Yue-shun, were acquitted. The 16 people were the only ones to plead not guilty from a group of 47 charged in early 2021 after mass dawn raids on their homes and offices by national security police.

‘Hong Kong 47’ trial: 14 activists found guilty of conspiracy to commit subversion