Hong Kong’s largest security trial closes, activists await subversion verdict

Hong Kong’s largest national security case, in which 47 pro-democracy activists are accused of subversion, closed on Monday with a verdict expected in three or four months. The defendants represent a cross-section of Hong Kong’s opposition — from democratically elected lawmakers to academics — which has been effectively squashed after China imposed the sweeping national […]

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