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Hong Kong Court Jails 45 Democracy Campaigners On Subversion Charges

Police keep watch outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court in Hong Kong during the sentencing of the city's most prominent democracy campaigners (Credit: AFP)

A Hong Kong court on Tuesday jailed all 45 defendants convicted in the city's largest trial under its sweeping national security law, with "mastermind" Benny Tai receiving the longest sentence of 10 years.

Tai's jail term is the longest yet handed out under the law, which was imposed by Beijing in 2020 to quash dissent after massive, sometimes violent pro-democracy protests the year before.

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