Leaders of the 2014 Hong Kong Occupy movement have been jailed for charges related to public nuisance for their part in the mass protest, in the latest crackdown on the city’s dissidents by authorities.
Professors Benny Tai, 54 and Chan Kin-man, 60 were sentenced to 16 months imprisonment for conspiracy to commit a public nuisance and eight months for incitement to commit public nuisance at the city’s Magistrate Court on Wednesday. Their sentences will be served concurrently. Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, 75, was given a 16 month sentence for conspiracy to commit a public nuisance suspended for two years.
The trio were convicted earlier this month.