Joshua Wong among Hong Kong activists jailed over Tiananmen Square rally


Source: independent.co.uk independent.co.uk

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Joshua Wong and three other pro-democracy Hong Kong activists have been jailed for 10 more months by a Hong Kong court for taking part in an unauthorised assembly last year to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Commemorations of the 4 June event are banned in mainland China , but Hong Kong has been holding annual vigils as the former British Colony was promised certain freedoms, including rights of expression and assembly, when it was returned to China in 1997. But the vigil was banned for the first time in 2020, with the police citing Covid-19 related restrictions on group...