Hong Kong activists - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 01 Aug 2022 08:02:00 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Hong Kong activists - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Family fear as Hong Kong protester jailed in China goes silent https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/08/01/family-fear-as-hong-kong-protester-jailed-in-china-goes-silent/ Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:50:04 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=149897 Family members of a Hong Kong protester jailed in mainland China after a failed attempt to flee to Taiwan have not heard from him in nearly half a year and are worried about his health, his brother told AFP. Tang Kai-yin, 31, was among a group of 12 Hong Kong activists caught by the Chinese Read more

Family fear as Hong Kong protester jailed in China goes silent... Read more]]> Family members of a Hong Kong protester jailed in mainland China after a failed attempt to flee to Taiwan have not heard from him in nearly half a year and are worried about his health, his brother told AFP.

Tang Kai-yin, 31, was among a group of 12 Hong Kong activists caught by the Chinese coast guard in August 2020 as they fled by speedboat to avoid prosecutions related to 2019's huge, sometimes violent, pro-democracy protests.

The group, with the exception of two minors, was convicted in a closed-door trial in mainland city Shenzhen, with Tang receiving the heaviest sentence of three years in jail as an organiser of the run.

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