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Hong Kong cardinal among activists on trial over protest fund
HONG KONG: A 90-year-old Hong Kong cardinal went on trial alongside five fellow democracy supporters on Monday over their role in running a fund to help defend people arrested in anti-government protests.Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of Asia's highest-ranking Catholic clerics, was originally detained earlier this year under a national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong to quell dissent.His arrest for “colluding with foreign forces” shocked the city’s Catholic community and renewed criticism of the Vatican’s warming ties with Beijing, including from fellow senior clerics.Police have not yet charged Zen with a national security offence, which can carry a sentence of up to life in jail.I

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