James Griffiths, Eric Cheung and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:30:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-logo-nwp-32x32.png James Griffiths, Eric Cheung and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph 32 32 Leaders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement jailed for 16 months https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2019/04/24/leaders-of-hong-kongs-pro-democracy-movement-jailed-for-16-months/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:45:20 +0000 https://newswatchplus-staging.azurewebsites.net/?p= (CNN) — A prominent group of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were handed sentences of up to 16 months in prison on Wednesday for their role in the “umbrella movement” rallies in 2014. A district court judge sentenced law professor Benny Tai, 54, retired sociology professor Chan Kin-man, 60, and retired pastor Chu Yiu-ming, 75, to 16

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