Three pro-democracy activists who organized annual commemorations of China's deadly 1989 Tiananmen crackdown were charged under Hong Kong's Beijing-backed national security law.
A Hong Kong court on Friday sentenced three pro-democracy activists who organized annual vigils marking China's deadly 1989 Tiananmen crackdown to between five and seven years in prison under the city's national security law.
The sentences handed down were:
Lee Cheuk-yan, 69 — seven years
Chow Hang-tung, 41 — seven years and three months.
Albert Ho, 74, — five years and two months, after pleading guilty
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