Joshua Wong shouts ‘I love Hong Kong’ as more than 40 leading democracy leaders handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial
More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, in the biggest single blow to the city’s already shrinking political freedoms following Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on dissent.
Hong Kong sentences 45 pro-democracy leaders to prison terms of up to 10 years
The activists were arrested over a single day in 2021 and charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” for taking part in an unofficial primary election.
Hong Kong jails 45 pro-democracy activists after largest national security trial
Hong Kong jails 45 pro-democracy activists in largest national security trial - Benny Tai and Joshua Wong were given 10 years and four years in prison
Dozens of Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders Are Jailed Up to 10 Years
The 45 defendants, including Joshua Wong, were at the forefront of the opposition movement crushed by Beijing. Many had already been in jail for years.
45 pro-democracy activists face sentencing in Hong Kong. Here’s who some of them are
Dozens of prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in the biggest case under a national security law that critics say has crushed political activism in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
Hong Kong jails 45 pro-democracy campaigners for subversion
A Hong Kong court has sentenced dozens of pro-democracy leaders to years in jail for subversion, following a controversial national security trial. Benny Tai, 60, and Joshua Wong, 28, were among the so-called Hong Kong 47 group of activists and lawmakers who were involved in a plan to pick opposition candidates for local elections.
Lawyers Among Those Convicted as Hong Kong's High Court Sentences 45 Activists to Prison
Hong Kong’s High Court has sentenced a group of 45 pro-democracy activists and politicians to prison in one of the city’s biggest national security cases.
Who are the activists jailed in Hong Kong's largest national security trial?
On Tuesday a court will hand out jail sentences for some of Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy icons, including Joshua Wong and Benny Tai, in a controversial national security case. They are part of a group known as the Hong Kong 47 who were charged three years ago in a crackdown under the national security law (NSL) imposed by China.
45 pro-democracy activists get 4 to 10 years in prison in Hong Kong's biggest national security case
Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists have been sentenced to four to 10 years in prison in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democ
Dozens of pro-democracy activists sentenced to prison in Hong Kong
Dozens of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong were sentenced to long prison terms for alleged subversion. The case involved the defendants' attempts to pick opposition candidates. As NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports,
Hong Kong court sentences 45 pro-democracy leaders in mass trial
45 Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders Jailed For “Subversion”
On November 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders were sentenced to years in jail for “subversion” following a controversial ...
Hong Kong hears from jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai for the first time in four years at his trial
Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious Hong Kong media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s ...
Scholar, Lawmakers And Journalist Among Hong Kongers Jailed
Hong Kong's largest national security trial came to an end on Tuesday with 45 pro-democracy figures jailed for holding an ...