Hong Kong convicts 14 pro-democracy activists
The ruling acts as a warning: dissent and pay the price
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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This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Controlling behaviour”
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