The court deemed the former University of Hong Kong law professor, Benny Tai, 60, a “principal offender.” It sentenced him to ...

HONG KONG -- The Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special ...

Chiu received a seven-year prison term, and Chung was sentenced to six years and one month. Of the 45 convicted, the court ...

The activists were arrested over a single day in 2021 and charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” for taking part in ...

HONG KONG – A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced former law scholar Benny Tai Yiu-ting, the mastermind behind the illegal “primary election” in 2020, to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to subvert ...

Former newspaper publisher (76) could face life sentence if convicted under draconian national security law imposed by ...

A Hong Kong court has sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to up to a decade behind bars after it ruled in a landmark legal ...

The convictions of the 45 activists under the Beijing-imposed law are widely seen as part of a crackdown by China that ...

Benny Tai, a former legal scholar identified in the judgement as a “mastermind” of the activists' plans, was sentenced to 10 years in jail, the longest sentence so far under the 2020 national security ...

Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong's biggest national ...

Hong Kong artist Clarisse Yeung was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of “subversion" amid a crackdown on ...

By the time the primary took place, though, the environment in Hong Kong had changed dramatically. In the interim, covid-19 ...