Hong Kong sentences 45 pro-democracy leaders to prison terms of up to 10 years
Hong Kong sentences 45 pro-democracy leaders to terms of up to 10 years, including legal scholar Benny Tai and former student activist Joshua Wong.
Hong Kong sentences 45 pro-democracy leaders to terms of up to 10 years, including legal scholar Benny Tai and former student activist Joshua Wong.
The 45 defendants, including Joshua Wong, were at the forefront of the opposition movement crushed by Beijing. Many have already been in jail for years.
The pro-democracy leaders were convicted for attempting subversion in a controversial national security trial.
A Hong Kong court has begun sentencing more than 40 of the city’s best known pro-democracy figures on charges of subversion in the largest national security trial to date following Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on dissent in the once free-wheeling city.