Hong Kong Court Upholds Sentences for Leung Kwok-hung and Activists

A Hong Kong appeals court dismissed all challenges in the city's largest national security case, upholding the convictions of 12 pro-democracy activists including Leung Kwok-hung and Gwyneth Ho.The group was among 45 opposition figures sentenced in 2024 to terms of up to 10 years for organizing an unofficial primary election that Chief Judge Jeremy Poon called a weapon of mass destruction.While Lawrence Lau saw his acquittal upheld, organizations like Amnesty International criticized the ruling as a missed opportunity to address what they described as a mass injustice.