Hong Kong’s High Court rejected an application by pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung on Monday to terminate a subversion trial involving herself and a group that once organised commemorations of the Tiananmen crackdown.

Chow, 40, the former vice-chair of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and two other former leaders, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho, face up to 10 years’ imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power”, under a China-imposed National Security Law .

She and others were accused of inciting others “to organise, plan, commit, or participate in acts by unlawful means with a view to subverting state power” between July 1, 2020, and September 8, 2021.

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Chow, who represented herself, said she could no

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