#Breaking: The verdicts, which are likely to result in prison sentences, represent the ongoing strangulation of dissent in #HongKong

The verdicts, which are likely to result in prison sentences, represent the ongoing strangulation of dissent in Hong Kong

https://www.economist.com/china/2024/05/30/hong-kong-convicts-14-pro-democracy-activists

The three presiding judges wasted little time in presenting their verdicts in the case of the “Hong Kong 47”, members of the city’s pro-democracy

political opposition. Over the course of two minutes on May 30th, the justices declared 14 of the defendants guilty of conspiracy to commit subversion

in the biggest national-security trial in the city’s history. Thirty-one had already pleaded guilty. Two were acquitted.

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