Media baron Jimmy Lai, who protested for democracy, faces possible life sentence.
A Hong Kong court harshly sentenced 45 prominent pro-democracy figures on November 19, 2024, on baseless national security ...
Benny Tai, a former legal scholar identified in the judgement as a “mastermind” of the activists' plans, was sentenced to 10 years in jail, the longest sentence so far under the 2020 national security ...
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.