Faces of Hong Kong pro-democracy movement sentenced to several months in prison


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Joshua Wong and two of his colleagues, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam, have been sentenced to multiple months in prison for a 2019 unauthorized protest in Hong Kong. The sentences, which were announced on Wednesday, included 13.5 months for Wong, 10 months for Chow, and seven months for Lam. Wong and Lam pleaded guilty on Nov. 23 to charges of inciting and organizing an unauthorized protest in June 2019 that called for an investigation into police brutality. Chow had already pleaded guilty at an earlier date. After the court appearance in which the two made their pleas, Wong, Lam, and...