Forty-five Hong Kong pro-democracy activists involved in an unofficial primary election in 2020 have been sentenced to between four and ten years in prison under the national security law. It's the largest trial since the law was imposed by Beijing in 2019.
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00:0045 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have been sentenced in the city's largest national
00:06security trial.
00:08Legal scholar Benny Tai was given the heaviest sentence of 10 years for conspiring to commit
00:14subversion.
00:15He'd organised an unofficial legislative primary election in 2020.
00:21Other activists sentenced include democracy movement leader Joshua Wong and dozens of
00:26elected lawmakers.
00:28All of them received sentences of over four years.
00:31Many of them have been jailed since their arrest in 2021, time which will count towards
00:37their sentences.