{"id":28851,"date":"2012-07-28T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=28851 "},"modified":"2012-07-28T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T18:04:00","slug":"28851-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=28851","title":{"rendered":"Activists Sentenced to Labor Camp for Hong Kong Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

HONG KONG — Two Chinese activists have been sent to a labour camp for taking part in this month’s massive pro-democracy march in Hong Kong and other protests, a report said Thursday.<\/span><\/p>

It is the first time Beijing has punished activists for attending a rally in the semi-autonomous former British colony, where freedoms of speech and assembly are protected under law, the South China Morning Post reported.<\/span><\/p>

The Hong Kong-based People’s Rights Union said Song Ningsheng, 44, and Zeng Jiuzi, 53, were tried by police and sentenced to 14 months each in a labour camp after attending the July 1 march.<\/span><\/p>

Court documents also accused them of petitioning in Beijing on July 9 and 11, the Post reported.<\/span><\/p>

People’s Rights Union chairman Liu Weiping said mainland security officers had tracked the pair during their trip to Hong Kong for the 15th anniversary of the territory’s return to Chinese rule.<\/span><\/p>

“If these mainland security personnel prevail, what does it mean to Hong Kongers? They should really think about it,” he was quoted as saying in the Post.<\/span><\/p>

Hong Kong’s biggest protest for nearly a decade packed the former British colony’s streets on July 1, in a defiant reception for the city’s new leader and a show of popular anger after 15 years of Chinese rule.<\/span><\/p>

Organisers put the crowd at 400,000, their largest claimed turnout for eight years and almost twice their number last year. Police said only 63,000 attended — although that was also their largest figure for eight years.<\/span><\/p>Continue reading <\/span>original article<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/span>  

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The two activists received 14 month sentences for taking part in a massive demonstration against the city's new leader, who is considered to be too close to the communist government in Beijing. &nbsp;This is the first time that Beijing has punished anyone for protesting in Hong Kong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}