A Chinese language court docket has sentenced 10 individuals who sought to flee Hong Kong by speedboat earlier this 12 months to between seven months and three years in jail.
The Yantian District Court docket within the southern metropolis of Shenzhen on Wednesday gave the harshest sentence to one of many two accused organizers of the ill-fated Aug. 23 try.
The defendants are believed to have feared they’d be prosecuted for his or her actions in help of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy motion. Hong Kong media stories mentioned at the very least one could have had a warrant out for his arrest beneath a tricky new nationwide safety legislation imposed on the semi-autonomous territory by Beijing in June.