45 Hong Kong Activists Receive Prison Sentences in Landmark National Security Case ...Middle East

HONG KONG — Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. They were tried under the 2020 national security law for their roles in an unofficial primary election. Prosecutors said their aim was to paralyze Hong Kong’s government and force the city’s leader to resign by aiming to win a legislative majority and using it to block government budgets indiscriminately. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Legal scholar Benny Tai, who was widely seen as the organizer of the unofficial primary, received the longest sente

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