National security law: with members behind bars or facing jail, Hong Kong June 4 vigil organisers weigh uncertain future
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This year, he is busy with something else.
“I have to prepare for my imprisonment by transferring some of my court cases to others, as this year I will probably spend my June 4 in jail,” he said.
Ho is vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which has organised the annual vigil at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay since 1990.
This year, however, its core leaders are either already in jail or expecting to be behind bars by the time the 32nd anniversary comes around.
Chairman Lee Cheuk-yan was jailed in April for 14 months for joining two illegal anti-government protests in 2019. Ho and secretary Richard Tsoi Yiu-cheong have a date in court on May 17 to face trial on similar unauthorised assembly charges.
Ho expects to go to jail, as he already received a one-year suspended sentence last month for participating in another peaceful but unauthorised march in 2019.