On Monday, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal unanimously upheld the convictions of seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, including Jimmy Lai, for their roles in an unauthorized assembly during the 2019 protests. Meanwhile, on Saturday, an almost-hundred strong crowd stood in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to protest against the arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of Chinese human rights defenders such as Gao Zhisheng, Peng Lifa, and Fang Yirong.
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On Monday, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal unanimously upheld the convictions of seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, including Jimmy Lai, for their roles in an unauthorized assembly during the 2019 protests. Meanwhile, on Saturday, an almost-hundred strong crowd stood in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to protest against the arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of Chinese human rights defenders such as Gao Zhisheng, Peng Lifa, and Fang Yirong.