CNA Staff, Dec 2, 2020 / 13:05 pm
Three Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, including a Catholic university student, were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for participating in illegal protests.
Democracy activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam were sentenced to 13.5 months, 10 months, and 7 months, respectively, in prison. They had each pled guilty last month to taking part in an "illegal assembly," for which they were arrested in August under a new national security law imposed on the region by Beijing.
Chow, 23 years old, is a Catholic university student who co-founded a pro-democracy political party along with Wong. She has been an outspoken advocate for civil rights.
Political leaders from the United States and Great Britain decried the sentencing of the three activists.