Beijing’s heavy hand
Hong Kong | The jailing of Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy leaders
by June Cheng & Erica Kwong
Posted 9/27/17, 05:18 pm
HONG KONG—On Aug. 17, the Chinese government dropped all pretenses of allowing autonomy in Hong Kong by sentencing its first political prisoners in the former British colony: Joshua Wong, 20, Nathan Law, 24, and Alex Chow, 27, will serve six to eight months in prison for leading the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protest.
