By Jessie Pang

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s High Court rejected an application on Monday by pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung to terminate a subversion trial involving herself and a group that once organised commemorations of the Tiananmen crackdown.

Chow, 40, the former vice-chair of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and two other former leaders, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho, face up to life imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power”, under a China-imposed National Security Law.

She and others were accused of inciting others “to organize, plan, commit, or participate in acts by unlawful means with a view to subverting state power” between July 1, 2020, and September 8, 2021.

Chow, who represented herself, said

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