Hong Kong democracy advocate Cardinal Joseph Zen was convicted of failing to register a fund providing aid to antigovernment protesters
HONG KONG—Retired bishop and longtime Hong Kong democracy advocate Cardinal Joseph Zen wasa fund providing aid to antigovernment protesters, the latest court verdict in a continuing crackdown on dissent in the city.
The 90-year-old cardinal, along with other prominent activists including local pop singer Denise Ho and veteran barrister Margaret Ng, didn’t file paperwork for the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, a court ruled Friday. The now-defunct fund offered financial and legal assistance to people arrested during the protests that convulsed the city from 2019 up until China’s imposition of a sweeping national security law on the semiautonomous territory the following summer.
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