Cardinal Joseph Zen is not giving up on his legal battle, despite having lost an appeal in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zen, 94, along with a pop singer, a lawyer, and an LGBT activist, was sentenced to pay 4,000 Hong Kong dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Court of Appeal has upheld the sentence he received in 2022 for failing to register the 612 Humanitarian Aid Fund as a society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what was the 612 Fund, and why did Cardinal Zen end up in court?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fund was established in June 2019, during the protests against a bill that would have allowed detainees in Hong Kong to be extradited to mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its goal was to provide financial and humanitarian aid to protesters who were injured, detained, or threatened. Its services included legal, medical, and psychological assistance, as well as emergency aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the judges\u2019 view, the fund had an organized structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GFX<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fund 612 was not merely money held in trust: in the court\u2019s view, it was an association. Registering it did not place an excessive burden on those who managed it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hong Kong Court of Appeal<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2022, Zen was arrested on suspicion of collaborating with foreign forces under the National Security Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His defense has now announced that it is appealing to the highest court. Four years after Zen's arrest, the case remains open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cardinal Joseph Zen is not giving up on his legal battle, despite having lost an appeal in Hong Kong. Zen, 94, along with a pop singer, a lawyer, and an LGBT activist, was sentenced to pay 4,000 Hong Kong dollars. The Court of Appeal has upheld the sentence he received in 2022 for failing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":93884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0PWffaabRAs","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bapellocardinalezeneng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bapellocardinalezenint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93889,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93883\/revisions\/93889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}