A Hong Kong court on Thursday upheld a ruling against retired bishop and democracy advocate Cardinal Joseph Zen and four co-defendants for failing to register the humanitarian fund they created to help protesters arrested during the pro-democracy uprising of 2019.
Zen and his co-defendants were arrested in 2022 on “suspicion of colluding with foreign forces” under the odious “national security law” China imposed on Hong Kong in 2020.
The penalties stipulated by the ordinance are not severe. The five were fined $4,000 Hong Kong dollars apiece, which works out to about $512 U.S. dollars. The defendants and their supporters nonetheless said the…
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