Joshua Wong, Benny Tai, Claudia Mo… In Hong Kong, China sentences 44 democrats to jail | EUROtoday
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Benny Tai: 10 years outdated. Joshua Wong: 4 years and eight months. “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung: 6 years and 9 months. Claudia Mo: 4 years and a couple of months… The record of jail sentences continues, limitless, together with 44 convicted (and just one acquitted) within the largest political trial within the historical past of Hong Kong.
These significantly harsh sentences are the conclusion of the “47” affair, so named due to the variety of democrats arrested and prosecuted inside the framework of this single instruction launched in 2021. From the outset, the main worldwide rights protection organizations of man unanimously condemned this new episode of repression within the monetary heart of southern China.
In a press launch, Amnesty International denounces, for instance, a “merciless purge”: “No…
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