Politics

Hong Kong Sentences Two Activists to Seven Years

TL;DR

Reuters files Lee Cheuk-yan at seven years and Chow Hang-tung at seven years three months for inciting subversion; a sentence is not a closed city.

MSM Perspective

Reuters filed the Alliance leaders. The New York Times filed the same bench. Print the years. Do not flatten Ho into seven.

X Perspective

Feeds treat two sentences as the last vigil.

A Hong Kong court sentenced Lee Cheuk-yan to seven years and Chow Hang-tung to seven years and three months for inciting subversion. [1] Reuters filed both as leaders of the disbanded Hong Kong Alliance that organized Tiananmen vigils. [1] Albert Ho, who pleaded guilty, received five years and two months in the same wrap. [1] Print the years as filed. Do not flatten three people into one number.

The New York Times filed the same sentences and a fine on the Alliance. [2] Judges noted no violence in the case. A sentence is not a rewritten 1989. Print Friday's bench. Leave an appeal to the edition that owns an appeal.

Friday recap that treats two seven-year terms as the last civil liberty is a feed, not Reuters. Print Lee and Chow. Print Ho's guilty plea as a third term, not seven.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing

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