National security trial for Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigil organizers to open

HONG KONG (AP) — Two pro-democracy activists behind a group that for decades organized a vigil that commemorated people killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 will stand trial on Thursday, in another landmark case brought under a China-imposed national security law that has practically crushed protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city.

Critics say their case shows that Beijing’s promise to keep the city’s Western-style civil liberties intact for 50 years when the former...