Hong Kong Jails 12 People Over Storming of Legislature in 2019 Protests
HONG KONG—A Hong Kong court sentenced 12 people Saturday to prison over the storming of the city’s legislative council building at the height of the pro-democracy protests in 2019. Hundreds of protesters swarmed into the legislature the night of July 1, 2019—the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China—defacing pictures and smashing […]