A Hong Kong court has convicted and fined six people over their involvement in a fund that supports pro-democracy protesters. They include a 90-year-old Catholic cardinal and a popular singer who are prominent activists.
Cardinal Joseph Zen and five others were found guilty of not properly registering the fund. The 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund helped pay the medical and legal fees of arrested protesters beginning in 2019. It was shut down in 2021.
Zen and four others, including pop singer Denise Ho, were trustees of the fund. They were each fined about 500 dollars.
The fund's secretary was fined about 300 dollars.
They were found to have violated an ordinance that requires organizations established in Hong Kong to register.
Police arrested Zen, Ho and two others in May under a Beijing-imposed National Security Law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces. They were later released on bail.
The arrests triggered international criticism. They were seen as a crackdown by authorities on the pro-democracy movement.
Cardinal Joseph Zen and five others were found guilty of not properly registering the fund. The 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund helped pay the medical and legal fees of arrested protesters beginning in 2019. It was shut down in 2021.
Zen and four others, including pop singer Denise Ho, were trustees of the fund. They were each fined about 500 dollars.
The fund's secretary was fined about 300 dollars.
They were found to have violated an ordinance that requires organizations established in Hong Kong to register.
Police arrested Zen, Ho and two others in May under a Beijing-imposed National Security Law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces. They were later released on bail.
The arrests triggered international criticism. They were seen as a crackdown by authorities on the pro-democracy movement.
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Hong Kong court convicts six individuals, including Cardinal Joseph Zen and pop singer Denise Ho, for failure to register a pro-democracy support fund. The 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund assisted arrested protesters with medical and legal fees from 2019 until its closure in 2021. Trustees Zen, Ho,
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Category ID: nhk
URL: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20221126_04/
Date: Nov. 26, 2022
Created: 2022/11/26 07:39
Updated: 2025/12/09 11:11
Last Read: 2022/11/26 08:13