Hong Kong: 45 Democracy Advocates Harshly Sentenced

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Elsa Wu, foster mother of activist Hendrick Lui, was taken into a police van outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts building after the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, November 19, 2024. © Photo by David Chan / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (Taipei) – A Hong Kong court harshly sentenced 45 prominent pro-democracy figures on November 19, 2024, on baseless national security charges that underscored Hong Kong’s abysmal human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today. The Hong Kong government should quash the convictions…

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