Hong Kong court imprisons ‘Umbrella Movement’ leaders for up to 16 months

By Gerry Shih Gerry Shih China Correspondent Email Bio Follow April 24 at 4:19 AM BEIJING — A Hong Kong court sentenced leaders of the 2014 Occupy Central protests to prison on Wednesday, five years after hundreds of thousands of residents poured into the streets in one of the most significant displays of defiance against the Chinese Communist Party in decades.

Tai, Chan and Chu formed the “Occupy Central With Love and Peace” movement in late 2013 that called for direct elections to choose a Hong Kong leader, free of interference from the central Chinese government. After unsuccessful negotiations with local authorities, the movement evolved into demonstrations and sit-ins that paralyzed the financial hub’s business districts for more than two months.

“It is an apology the public rightly deserves from the defendants but was never received,” the Free Press reported Chan as saying. All told, eight protest figures were sentenced to either jail or community service. The ninth person convicted, the sitting lawmaker Tanya Chan, had her sentencing pushed back because she was scheduled to have emergency surgery for a brain tumor.

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