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Pro-democracy activists jailed in Hong Kong

A Hong Kong court has sentenced forty-five democracy activists to jail, in the territory's biggest national security trial since Beijing clamped down on dissent.

In Hong Kong, forty-five democracy activists have been sentenced to up to ten years in prison after the city's biggest national security trial since Beijing clamped down on dissent there. We'll speak to a leading pro-democracy campaigner.

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(Pic: Elsa, the foster mother of one of the defendants, social worker Hendrick Lui; Credit: Reuters)

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