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Four Hong Kong occupy movement activists sentenced to jail over 2014 protests

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Nearly five years after taking to the streets to demand greater freedoms, four leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy occupy movement have been jailed on conspiracy charges. Two of them for sixteen months each. The sentencing decisions come after a month-long trial that many believe exposes Chinese attempts to further reduce Hong Kong's already limited autonomy.

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