Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Hong Kong pro-democracy activists given jail terms” – below is their description.
Hong Kong’s nine most prominent, pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to jail terms for taking part in anti-government protests in 2019.
Among them is veteran campaigner Martin Lee, who helped launch the city’s largest opposition party in the 1990s, and media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
Britain’s foreign minister says prosecuting leading pro-democracy activists is unacceptable.
Al Jazeera’s Adrian Brown reports from Hong Kong.
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Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.