Leaders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement have been jailed for 16 months over the mass demonstrations in 2014.
Benny Tai, 55, an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, and Chan Kin-man, 60, a retired sociologist, were each jailed for 16 months for conspiracy to cause public nuisance and eight months for incitement to public nuisance, with the sentences to run concurrently. The Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, 75, a Baptist minister, was sentenced to 16 months in jail for conspiracy, suspended for two years because of his age.
The three men had urged the public to take to the street in 2014 and demand universal suffrage. Tens of thousands of people joined the sit-ins and street demonstrations and it became known as the