Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung, who has been detained for two years under the national security law, has been awarded a human rights prize by the foreign ministries of France and Germany. The 12 winners of the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law were announced by the French and German foreign ministries on Tuesday. The award honours “civil society’s commitment to human dignity and the inalienable human rights of all people,” according to press releases issued by the ministries. The awardees “head non-governmental organisations and are lawyers, journalists …