Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/37180
Target Beijing's big-business allies!
Submitted by AWL on 20 April, 2021 - 5:18
Author: Pete Radcliff
Trade union leader Lee Cheuk Yan, socialist Leung Kwok Hung (“Long Hair”), and media mogul Jimmy Lai were given prison sentences of 14 months, 18 months and 14 months respectively, on 16 April, from their trial as leaders of the broad-based Civil and Human Rights Front.
Some other defendants, including 82-year-old former barrister and moderate democrat Martin Lee, were given suspended sentences.
Another trial started on 19 April, again on the charge of organising unauthorised assemblies, with three socialists, Avery Ng and Figo Chan from the League of Social Democrats, and Cyd Ho from the Labour Party, in the dock alongside (again) Lee Cheuk Yan and “Long Hair”.