Hongkongers Who Clapped in Court Jailed on Sedition Charges

Hongkongers Who Clapped in Court Jailed on Sedition Charges
Garry Pang Moon-yuen outside the West Kowloon Court in Hong Kong on Nov. 29, 2021, in this photo taken from video. Alice Fung/AP Photo
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HONG KONG—Two Hong Kong residents, including a pastor, were found guilty of sedition and sentenced to jail Thursday for clapping and criticizing a judge during a previous trial over a banned vigil in the city.

The Rev. Garry Pang Moon-yuen and Chiu Mei-ying, a housewife, were arrested in April for disturbances during a court hearing in January in which a leader of a group that organized a vigil commemorating the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square was sentenced for inciting others to join the prohibited event last year.