HONG KONG -- Eight Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, including media mogul Jimmy Lai, were sentenced to up to 14 months imprisonment on Monday for taking part in last year's unauthorized vigil to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square killings.
For the first time in three decades, Hong Kong authorities last year banned the city's annual commemoration for victims of China's crackdown on student protesters in 1989. Officials cited public health concerns, while the organizers said the move was politically motivated. Critics argued it was part of a wider campaign to suppress the memory of what happened in and around Tiananmen Square.
