More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on ...

A Hong Kong court has sentenced dozens of pro-democracy leaders to years in jail for subversion, following a controversial ...

On November 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders were sentenced to years in jail for “subversion” following a controversial ...

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.

The activists were arrested over a single day in 2021 and charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” for taking part in ...

But many like Owen Chow, Ventus Lau and Tiffany Yuen represented a new generation of vocal activists. Mr Lau and Mr Chow were ...

The convictions of the 45 activists under the Beijing-imposed law are widely seen as part of a crackdown by China that ...

Chiu received a seven-year prison term, and Chung was sentenced to six years and one month. Of the 45 convicted, the court ...

Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious Hong Kong media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s ...

A similar crowd had gathered on Tuesday for the sentencing of the Hong Kong 47, which included some of the biggest names in ...

By the time the primary took place, though, the environment in Hong Kong had changed dramatically. In the interim, covid-19 ...

Hong Kong’s High Court has sentenced a group of 45 pro-democracy activists and politicians to prison in one of the city’s ...