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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Helen Davidson and agencies

Four pro-democracy lawmakers from ‘Hong Kong 47’ group freed after four years in jail

A supporter holds a poster showing some of the 47 pro-democracy activists on trial at the West Kowloon Court in Hong Kong on July 8, 2021
Some of the Hong Kong 47 pro-democracy activists have been released from prison. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images

Four members of the “Hong Kong 47” group of pro-democracy campaigners and activists jailed on contentious national security convictions have been freed.

Claudia Mo, Kwok Ka-ki, Jeremy Tam and Gary Fan are the first of the group to be released from jail, after serving sentences of more than four years. The group - tried together in Hong Kong’s largest ever national security trial - were sentenced in November. However most of them, including the four released on Tuesday, had already spent several years detained after courts denied bail.

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