Former legal scholar and ‘mastermind’ Benny Tai receives 10-year prison term.
Forty-five Hong Kong opposition figures were jailed on Tuesday for four to 10 years for their participation in a plot to overthrow the government in 2020, with former legal scholar Benny Tai Yiu-ting receiving the stiffest sentence for masterminding an unauthorised legislative “primary” election to subvert state power.
The sentencing brought to a close the city’s largest and longest-running national security trial that had initially involved a group of 47 accused of plotting to ride on the momentum of the 2019 anti-government protests to win control of the Legislative Council and destroy the government.
