Fourteen people have been found guilty of ‘conspiracy to subvert state power’ by holding unofficial election primaries in 2020, in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial.
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Two defendants, the former district councillor Laurence Lau Wai-chung and the former social worker Lee Yue-shun, were acquitted. The 16 people were the only ones to plead not guilty from a group of 47 charged in early 2021 after mass dawn raids on their homes and offices by national security police.
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