Hong Kong court sentences 3 Tiananmen vigil organizers to prison

The activists were sentenced to about 5 to 7 years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2633x1754+0+0/resize/2633x1754!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F97%2F6a%2F1b8ccfd64b849f692d3cbfa2aa34%2Fap26253456206334.jpg' alt='FILE - Pro-democracy activists including from left Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung shout slogans during a gathering to mourn those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong on June 4, 2020.'/><p>The activists were sentenced to about 5 to 7 years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.</p><p>(Image credit: Kin Cheung)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=g-s1-142832' />