Hong Kong, Nov 19, 2024 (AFP) - Benny Tai: from Hong Kong's elite scholar to 'state subverter'

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2024-11-19

Once the Hong Kong government's go-to constitutional law expert, Benny Tai was on Tuesday sentenced to 10 years in prison for subversion, labelled the "mastermind" in the city's largest national security case. In 2001, he received a medal of honour for civic education around the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution which has governed the former British colony since it was handed over to China. More than 20 years later, he has received the lon......

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