Party newspapers in Hong Kong call them the “black hands”: the activists who inspired the “Umbrella Movement” of 2014 involving 79 days of sit-ins and demonstrations in busy commercial areas in support of democratic reform.
On April 24th a court in Hong Kong sentenced eight of them, including four who were sent to jail. Two academics, Benny Tai and Chan Kin-man, received the stiffest punishment: 16 months behind bars. A Baptist minister, Chu Yiu-Ming, was given the same sentence, but his term was suspended. Human-rights groups say the jailings will have a chilling effect on free speech. China would like that.
They don’t get it that they are under communist control they must unite with Taiwan
bad news for everyone
They know that a China of two ways not will work forever, even their is a treaty with Britain before.
it's xi's china...
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