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Hong Kong activists sentenced for vigils
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HONG KONG -- Three Hong Kong activists who organized annual vigils in remembrance of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced Friday to about five to seven years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.
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Hong Kong court sentences three Tiananmen vigil organizers to prison under the national security law, with Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung each getting seven-year terms (Chow 7 years and 3 months) and Albert Ho five years two months after pleading guilty.
Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are set to be sentenced Friday for their convictions of inciting subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law
Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho are three prominent Hong Kong activists who led the group behind the city’s massive annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown
Three activists who had held annual vigils commemorating the Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced to between five and seven years in prison Friday for calling for an "end to one-party dictatorship". Prosecutors had argued that China's constitution enshrines the primacy of the Communist Party.
Three pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong who organized annual vigils for victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced Friday under a national security law that critics say has stifled dissent.
By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Three key organizers behind what used to be the only large-scale public commemoration for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil will spend years in prison for inciting subversion in Hong Kong after judges handed down their sentence on Friday.
Pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were found guilty of ‘incitement to subversion’ in controversial national security case Two pro-democracy activists who were put on trial for organising an annual Tiananmen Square massacre vigil in Hong Kong have been sentenced to seven years …
A Hong Kong court has sentenced three activists who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown to prison terms of about 5 to 7 years
The activists were sentenced to about 5 to 7 years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city’s eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.
Three pro-democracy activists who organized annual commemorations of China's deadly 1989 Tiananmen crackdown were charged under Hong Kong's Beijing-backed national security law.
Three pro-democracy activists who organized annual commemorations of China's deadly 1989 Tiananmen crackdown were charged under Hong Kong's Beijing-backed national security law.
Hong Kong and Macao were the only places on Chinese soil that permitted public mourning for those killed during Tiananmen Square protests. But public commemorations have effectively been banned in both cities in recent years.
HONG KONG -- Three Hong Kong activists who organized annual vigils in remembrance of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced Friday to about five to seven years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.
HONG KONG — A court in Hong Kong, once the only place in China where the victims of the 1989 military massacre in Tiananmen Square could be publicly commemorated, sentenced three organizers of those vigils to years in prison Friday.
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