The organisers of a yearly vigil to mark China’s brutal 1989 crackdown were sentenced to four and a half months in jail.

The organisers of a yearly vigil to mark China’s brutal 1989 crackdown were sentenced to four and a half months in jail.
Court convicted Hong Kong democracy activist and barrister Chow Hang-tung, as well as Tang Ngok Kwan and Tsui Hon Kwong.
Picked up in a dawn raid two years ago, the activists and politicians are charged over an unofficial primary.
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