A Hong Kong court handed three Tiananmen vigil activists jail sentences of between five and seven years on Sept. 11 for national security crimes, following a trial that has drawn international condemnation.

Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are set to be sentenced Friday for their convictions of inciting…

The activists were sentenced to about 5 to 7 years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.