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4 minute read Lee Cheuk-yan, one of the pro-democracy activists on trial, speaks to the media, at the West Kowloon Magistrates Courts, Hong Kong, 1 April 2021, Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto Seven of Hong Kong s pro-democracy figures were convicted of organizing and taking part in an unauthorized assembly in August 2019. It was a massive protest attended by more than a million people who were protesting the proposed amendments to the extradition law. This statement was originally published on freedomhouse.org on 2 April 2021. In response to the convictions of seven prodemocracy figures in Hong Kong, following months of worsening repression, Freedom House issued the following statement:

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