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HK Protest Leaders Found Guilty

The nine pro-democracy campaigners who stood trial late last year for their roles in organizing the 2014 “Occupy Central”/Umbrella Movement protests have each been convicted of at least one public nuisance-related charge, a development that has renewed alarm over the future of political freedom in Hong Kong. Three student protest leaders–Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, and Alex Chow–were given six to eight month prison sentences in 2017 for their