Hong Kong courts find over 700 guilty 2 years after protests shook city

Widening crackdown quells demonstrations but not distrust in government

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Police disperse people gathered at Hong Kong's Victoria Park on June 4, the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. © Reuters

TAKESHI KIHARA, Nikkei staff writer

HONG KONG -- A total of 715 people so far have been found guilty of charges connected to Hong Kong's mass protests that began two years ago Wednesday, as authorities crack down against dissent under the controversial national security law enacted last year.

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