Over 1,400 days since their arrests, 45 Hong Kong democrats face sentencing in landmark subversion case

[HKFP] - 11/19/2024

Forty-five Hong Kong pro-democracy figures face sentencing on Tuesday in the city’s largest national security case to date. They face up to life imprisonment after being convicted of conspiring to commit subversion over their roles in an unofficial legislative primary election held in 2020. (…)



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