Hong Kong pro-democracy protest leaders sentenced

[Feng Leng]

Hong Kong pro-democracy protest leaders sentenced

The "Umbrella Movement" leaders organized 79 days of pro-democracy protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory in 2014. The group wanted Hong Kong voters to have the right to choose the city's leader.

A court in Hong Kong handed down sentences of up to 16 months to eight leaders of the city's "Umbrella Movement" on Wednesday, a month after they were found guilty of organizing a 79-day pro-democracy protest in 2014.

The movement had demanded Hong Kong's 5 million voters be given the right to choose the leader of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

What were the sentences?

• Sixteen months in jail for professors Benny Tai and Chan Kinman.
• A suspended sentence of two years for Reverend Chu Yiu-ming.
• Eight months in prison for two defendants.
• Eight-month suspended sentences for another two leaders.
• Two hundred hours of community service for student leader Tommy Cheung.

The convictions: In April, a court convicted eight members of the group of incitement to commit public nuisance. Five members were also found guilty of "incitement to incite" public nuisance.

Justice is slow but finally the day has come!

 

[shi12jun]

判的时间太短了，这些垃圾他妈的枪毙最好不过了

 

[Yankee-stani]

They all have Western names lol

 

[Nan Yang]

Running dogs.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Our justice system in Hong Kong is far too lenient, these Umbrella Movement leaders are 100% traitors and should be locked away on a permanent basis.

 

[Beidou2020]

They tried to topple the government on behalf of foreign powers. They should have been sentenced to life in prison.

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

Hong Kong needs to cut its losses and wakeup.

 

[Yankee-stani]

Hong Kongers in the west are the most snobbish and elitist Chinese folks I met here in fact many of my mainlanders and Taiwanese friends claim they are the Jews of China after the Hakka