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Hong Kong jailed my dad to stop me speaking out, says activist
Kwok Yin-sang received an eight-month sentence for handling $11,000 of insurance funds for his daughter, a wanted activist, marking the first family prosecution under Hong Kong's Article 23 law.
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Father of US-Based Activist Is Sentenced Under National Security Law in Hong Kong
A Hong Kong court on Feb. 24 sentenced the father of a U.S.-based pro-democracy activist to eight months in prison for a national security offense, in a case that has sparked fresh criticism of the Chinese regime’s transnational repression. Kwok Yin-sang, 69, was convicted of “attempting to deal with, directly or indirectly, any funds or other financial assets or economic resources” earlier this month under the city’s 2024 security law. He had p…
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Father of US-based Hong Kong activist sentenced to 8 months under security law
A Hong Kong court has sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison in the first case brought against the relative of a pro-democracy activist wanted by the city's authorities under a national security law
·United States
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Leaning Left1Leaning Right1Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution34% Left, 33% Center, 33% Right
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- 34% of the sources lean Left, 33% of the sources are Center, 33% of the sources lean Right
34% Left
L 34%
C 33%
R 33%
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