Media mogul Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 13 months in jail for participating in a banned vigil marking the Tiananmen Square massacre. Thousands of Hongkongers defied the territory’s new security laws to attend the event which is an annual commemoration of the victims of the 1989 massacre. Lai argued in the trial that he had lit candles at the service in a personal capacity and had not “incited” others to join the unauthorised rally. However the judge dismissed the argument saying his attendance was an act of defiance. Lai’s lawyer’s produced a handwritten note to the sentencing hearing that read “if commemorating those who died because of injustice is a crime, then inflict on me that crime and let me suffer the punishment … so I may share the burden and glory of those young men and women who shed their blood on 4 June (1989).” Opposition politician Gwyneth Ho, prominent human rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung and other pro-democracy activists have also been sentenced for attending the vigil.