Hong Kong: 45 activists jailed in national security case

Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years in a landmark national security trial that has drawn international condemnation.

Legal scholar Benny Tai, considered the mastermind behind the plan, was given the longest sentence.

This was Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a sweeping law imposed by China that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

The activists were prosecuted in 2021 for their roles in an…