▲ A Hong Kong court yesterday sentenced 45 opponents who Western media identified as pro-democracy activists to prison terms of up to 10 years, in the largest trial held in this semi-autonomous Chinese city for a national security law. Those convicted were arrested for organizing informal primary elections in 2020 in order to obtain a majority in the city’s Legislature. He brain From this consultation, the jurist Benny Tai (in image from 2019), received a sentence of 10 years in prison, the highest. Along with Tai, Au Nok-hin, Andrew Chiu, Ben Chung and Gordon Ng were charged as main organizers of the consultation and received sentences of up to seven years and three months in prison. The minimum sentence imposed on the rest of the 40 defendants is four years and two months. The United States, the European Union and Taiwan rejected the sentences, while the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warned about the criminalization of conduct protected by human rights.Photo Afp

La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, p. 24