Some of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures have been jailed, one of them for 10 years, in the territory’s largest national security trial, after a prosecution that has been widely criticised as politically motivated. The jailed are among 47 people, known as the 'Hong Kong 47', who were charged in 2021 under the punitive national security law with conspiracy to commit subversion. Relatives of those jailed who were outside the high court were outraged by the sentencing HK47: dozens of pro-democracy activists jailed in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial Activists, professors, legislators: who are the Hong Kong 47?
'He is a good person': outrage as Hong Kong activists sentenced to prison
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Some of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures have been jailed, one of them for 10 years, in the territory’s largest national security trial, after a prosecution that has been widely criticised as politically motivated. The jailed are among 47 people, known as the 'Hong Kong 47', who were charged in 2021 under the punitive national security law with conspiracy to commit subversion. Relatives of those jailed who were outside the high court were outraged by the sentencing HK47: dozens of pro-democracy activists jailed in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial Activists, professors, legislators: who are the Hong Kong 47?
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