Baptist minister Chu Yiu-ming , law professor Benny Tai , sociology professor Chan Kin-man and other pro-democracy campaigners chant slogans before entering the West Kowloon Magistrates Court in Hong Kong. – AFP pic, April 24, 2019
TWO prominent leaders of Hong Kong’s democracy movement were jailed today for their role in organising mass pro-democracy protests in 2014 that paralysed the city for months and infuriated Beijing. Sociology professor Chan Kin-man, 60, and law professor Benny Tai, 54, were both handed 16-month jail sentences by Judge Johnny Chan at West Kowloon Magistrates Court.
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