Former Macau lawmaker Au Kam San had co-organised annual vigils for victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. (AFP pic)HONG KONG: The US has said it "strongly condemns" last week's sentencing of pro-democracy activist and former lawmaker Au Kam San in the Chinese territory of Macau.
Au was convicted of subversion and other offences, and sentenced on Friday to 12-and-a-half years in jail in the former Portuguese colony, which reverted to China in 1999.
It was the first conviction under Macau's National Security Law, enacted in 2009 and toughened in 2023, and followed a trial that wrapped up in three days behind closed doors.
Au, 69, who was arrested in July 2025, had co-organised annual vigils for victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.
