Hong Kong’s new chapter

The European Union's parliament has called for sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong officials over the jailing of three activists. The activists, Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung, and Albert Ho, were sentenced to up to seven years in prison for organising vigils for those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

The European Parliament overwhelmingly backed a non-binding resolution condemning the sentences, which were issued under a national security law imposed on Hong Kong in 2020.

Hong Kong's government has announced that it will set up sites for members of the public to pay their respects to the city's former leader Tung Chee-hwa, who passed away last Tuesday at the age of 89. A state funeral will also be held for Tung, who served two consecutive terms as Hong Kong's first chief executive after the former British territory's 1997 return to China, according to the Hong Kong Free Press.

Brief written by urgent.news from South China Morning Post, South China Morning Post - Hong Kong, Free Malaysia Today, Hong Kong Free Press, Antara News Indonesia — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.