Hong Kong’s Cardinal Zen goes on trial over fund defending arrested protesters

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A 90-year-old Hong Kong cardinal will go on trial alongside four fellow democracy supporters on Monday over their role in running a fund to help defend people arrested in anti-government protests.

Police have not yet charged Zen with a national security offence, which can carry up to life in jail.

We abandoned him,” Mueller told the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero earlier this month, saying he was disappointed that a recent consistory – a gathering of cardinals in Rome – did not speak in support of Zen.

China responded to those protests with a sweeping crackdown on dissent.

Some groups have been prosecuted for funding and registration irregularities, even though several had functioned without incident for years, including the alliance that used to organise the city’s annual Tiananmen crackdown vigils.

Zen’s 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund is charged with not properly registering under the Societies Ordinance, a colonial-era law from 1911.