TIFFANY MAY2026年9月11日左起：李卓人，摄于2019年；邹幸彤，摄于2021年；何俊仁，摄于2019年。 Philip Fong/AFP — Getty Images; Lam Yik/Reuters; Isaac Lawrence/AFP — Getty ImagesA court in Hong Kong, once the only place in China where the victims of the 1989 military massacre in Tiananmen Square could be publicly commemorated, sentenced three organizers of those vigils to years in prison on Friday.周五，香港一家法院判处三名天安门事件守夜活动组织者数年监禁。香港曾是中国唯一可以公开悼念1989年天安门广场屠杀的地方。Over three decades, the annual commemoration events were seen as a symbol of Hong Kong’s freedoms relative to the mainland. The sentences on Friday were another clear sign of how Beijing has eroded those freedoms in the name of national security.三十多年来，一年一度的纪念活动一直被视为香港相对于内地自由的象征。周五的判决再次明确表明了北京正如何以国家安全为名侵蚀这些自由。The three organizers, Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho, were sentenced under a national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing in 2020.三名组织者邹幸彤、李卓人和何俊仁是根据北京2020年在香港实施的国家安全法被判刑的。Ms. Chow, a lawyer, received the longest prison term of seven years and three months. Mr. Lee, a labor organizer, was sentenced to seven years. Mr. Ho, a lawyer and a founder of what was the city’s largest opposition party before it disbanded last year, was sentenced to five years and two months in prison.身为律师的邹幸彤获刑最重，刑期为七年三个月。工运组织者李卓人被判处七年监禁。去年解散的香港最大反对党创始人之一、同为律师的何俊仁则被判处五年两个月监禁。Veterans of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, the three were leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance, a group that organized the Tiananmen vigils and called for the “end of one-party dictatorship.” A panel of three judges handpicked by the city’s leader to handle national security cases ruled that the group’s core mission posed a challenge to the ruling Communist Party and found them guilty of inciting subversion.作为香港民主派的资深人士，这三人是香港支联会的领导人，该团体曾组织天安门烛光守夜并呼吁“结束一党专政”。由香港行政长官指定负责处理国家安全案件的三法官审判庭裁定，该组织的核心使命对执政的共产党构成挑战，判定三人煽动颠覆国家政权罪名成立。They have already spent several years behind bars since their arrests in September 2021, some of which will count toward their sentences. Their sentencing concluded one of the many lengthy national security trials involving Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures.自2021年9月被捕以来，他们已被关押数年，其中部分关押时间将折抵刑期。对他们的宣判结束了涉及香港最知名民主派人士的众多漫长国家安全审判之一。After mass antigovernment protests in Hong Kong in 2019, the authorities have sought to prevent any public commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.2019年香港爆发大规模反政府抗议后，当局一直试图禁止任何公开纪念1989年北京天安门广场镇压事件的活动。The soccer pitches where tens of thousands once gathered to remember those killed when the Chinese military cleared student protesters from Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds and possibly thousands, are now sealed off days ahead of the sensitive anniversary, and crowds of police officers question lone commemorators.数万人曾聚集在一个足球场，悼念天安门广场学生抗议遭军队清场时的遇难者——清场行动造成数百甚至数千人死亡，如今，在敏感的周年纪念日前数天，球场便会被封锁，成群的警员还会盘查独自前往的悼念者。Freedom of speech in Hong Kong has also been considerably stifled. The trial was made notable by the uncompromising testimony of Ms. Chow, who defended herself. (Before her arrest, she had been preparing to defend Gwyneth Ho, a former journalist who was sentenced in 2024 to seven years in prison for running in an unofficial primary election.)香港的言论自由也遭到了严厉打压。选择为自己辩护的邹幸彤发表了毫不妥协的证词，使这场审判备受瞩目。（在被捕前，她一直在准备为前记者何桂蓝辩护，后者因参加非官方初选于2024年被判处七年监禁。）In the courtroom, Ms. Chow used every opportunity she could to keep alive the memory of the Tiananmen victims. She read aloud the testimony of mothers whose children had been gunned down by tanks in 1989. She argued with a judge when he requested that she replace her repeated references to the “Tiananmen massacre” with the “1989 incident.” Behind bars, she commemorated every anniversary with hunger strikes.在法庭上，邹幸彤抓住一切机会表达对天安门受害者的追思。她当庭大声朗读了一些母亲的证词，她们的孩子在1989年死于坦克之下。当法官要求她将其反复提及的“天安门大屠杀”替换为“1989年事件”时，她与法官展开辩论。身陷囹圄后，每逢周年纪念，她都会发起绝食抗议。Mark Clifford, the president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation based in New York, said that Ms. Chow was noteworthy, even among other outspoken Hong Kong activists who have become more circumspect in court as they battle serious charges and the prospect of years behind bars.总部位于纽约的香港自由委员会基金会主席马克·克利福德表示，在所有这些因面临重罪指控和多年刑期而在法庭上显得谨小慎微的活动人士中，邹幸彤的表现格外引人注目。“Other defendants have either pled guilty or said very little or fought on pretty narrow technical grounds,” he said in a phone interview. “She’s made this full-throated case for freedom and for free speech and for historical memory in a way that is unprecedented in a Hong Kong courtroom.”“其他被告要么认罪，要么噤声少言，要么仅在非常狭隘的技术层面进行抗辩，”他在电话采访中表示。“而她以香港法庭上前所未有的方式全力为自由、言论自由和历史记忆展开辩护。”Whenever the judges overseeing the trial asked whether she would ask for leniency, she expressed no regrets for her actions. “I would rather be a criminal than a person who betrays their conscience,” she wrote in her mitigation statement.每当主审法官询问她是否请求从宽处理时，她都对自己的所作所为毫无悔意。“我宁愿做一个罪犯，都不要做一个背叛良知的人，”她在自己的陈情文中写道。2019年，香港维多利亚公园，悼念1989年天安门广场大屠杀受害者的烛光晚会。Wang Dan, a student leader of the Tiananmen protests now living in Los Angeles, thanked the three vigil organizers in a statement. “I am deeply grateful to them for being willing to sacrifice their freedom in order to commemorate the victims,” he wrote.现居洛杉矶的天安门抗议学生领袖王丹在一份声明中向这三名悼念晚会组织者表达感谢。他写道：“对他们为悼念‘六四’死难者而不惜失去自由的心意表达深深的感恩之情。”The court also ordered the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance to pay a $190,000 fine. In 2021, the government froze the group’s assets and ordered it to scrub its online presence.法院还下令对现已解散的香港支联会处以150万港元（约合人民币130万元）罚款。2021年，政府冻结了该团体的资产，并命令其清除所有网络痕迹。Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group, wrote in a statement that “the harsh sentences against peaceful Tiananmen vigil organizers expose the cruelty and insecurity of a government afraid of memory and the people.”人权倡导组织人权观察在声明中表示：“对和平悼念六四的组织者判以重刑，揭露出一个害怕记忆、害怕人民的政府的残酷与不安。”For Ms. Chow, memory has been a guiding force.对邹幸彤而言，记忆一直是一股指引她的力量。As the case came to a close, Ms. Chow repeated a promise to strive for democracy and to demand accountability for Tiananmen victims “until the day democracy arrives.”随着案件审理接近尾声，她再次承诺将争取民主并要求为天安门受害者追责，“直到民主到来的那一天”。“I will work hard, study, improve myself and try all sorts of things,” she wrote. “This is a solemn vow I made to the departed in a sea of candles, and I have no intention on breaking it.”“我会去努力、去学习、去充实自己、去做各种的尝试，”她写道。“这是我在烛海之中对死难者许下的庄严誓言。”Tiffany May是时报驻香港记者，报道香港和更广泛地区的政治、商业和文化议题。翻译：纽约时报中文网点击查看本文英文版。