A Hong Kong court sentences pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung to seven years in prison each for inciting subversion under the national security law for leading the Hong Kong All was recorded by Global Incident Tracker on Friday, 11 September 2026 at 11:00 UTC. The event is classified as a riot / unrest incident with a severity rating of Moderate, and was detected through the Wikipedia Current Events portal.
A Hong Kong court sentences pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung to seven years in prison each for inciting subversion under the national security law for leading the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. (Reported via the Wikipedia Current Events portal, which aggregates notable events from mainstream news coverage.)
Where this happened
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Approximate coordinates of the reported event are 35.900°, 104.200°. The marker on the map above shows this position; for news-derived reports the location reflects the place named in media coverage and may represent a district or city rather than an exact site.
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Timeline and sources
Reported
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· received · event time 11 Sep 2026, 11:00 UTCFirst report Encyclopedia entry
First recorded from Wikipedia.
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Conditions at the time
No rainfall was recorded that day, and the temperature peaked at 21°C.
Weather reanalysis for this location and date via Open-Meteo.