Cardinal Joseph Zen (90) and five other human rights activists were sentenced in Hong Kong on Friday for failing to register an aid fund for democracy activists. The court in West Kowloon imposed fines of between 300 and 500 euros on the former Catholic bishop of Hong Kong and the five other defendants from science, society and art, as reported by Kathpress.
The temporary arrest of the six accused in May and the trial had sparked outrage around the world. The now-defunct Fund 612 provided financial, legal and psychological assistance to people jailed in the 2019 protests.
According to prosecutors, a good 100,000 individual donations totaling 270 million Hong Kong dollars were paid into the fund.
Source: Nachrichten
