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Hong Kong court sentences 3 Tiananmen vigil organizers to prison in national security case

Three Hong Kong activists who organized annual vigils in remembrance of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced Friday to about five to seven years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.

Hong Kong court sentences 3 Tiananmen vigil organizers to prison in national security case

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