Hong Kong court sentences pro-democracy activist Benny Tai to 10 years in prison

Reuters

November 18, 2024 at 9:37 p.m.·1 min read

Pro-democracy activist Benny Tai flashes thumbs up as he walks to a prison van to head to court, over the national security law charge, in the early morning, in Hong Kong

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday jailed a leading pro-democracy activist for 10 years at the start of sentencing in a years-long national security trial that has damaged the city's once feisty pro-democracy movement and drawn global criticism.

Benny Tai, a former legal scholar who was labelled as an "organiser" of the 47 pro-democracy activists who were arrested and charged in 2021 with conspiracy to commit subversion under a national security law, was sentenced to 10 years in jail.

(Reporting by James Pomfret and Jessie Pang; Editing by Anne Marie Roantree and Himani Sarkar)

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