Hong Kong news tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 13 months in prison. A Hong Kong court sentenced eight members of the pro-democracy front found guilty of participating in or encouraging other people to attend last year’s vigil to remember the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989, an initiative that had been banned by the authorities of the former British colony.
The Hong Kong Free Press reports, specifying that among the eight there are former exponents of the Hong Kong Alliance in support of the patriotic democratic movements of China, dissolved in September, Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung, lawyer, Simon Leung and Richard Tsoi. The others – in addition to Jimmy Lai, 74-year-old founder of the Apple Daily newspaper closed in the summer who is already serving a previous sentence – are former MPs Leung Yiu-chung and Wu Chi-wai and activist and former reporter Gwyneth Ho. According to Hkfp, sentences range from four and a half months to 14 months in prison.