Hong Kong: Court sentences twelve protesters to long prison terms. During mass pro-democracy protests in the summer of 2019, demonstrators broke into Hong Kong's parliament building.
More than 10,000 demonstrators were arrested in the Chinese Special Administrative Region following the storming of the parliament building and pro- democracy protests. The following year, Beijing passed a so-called security law in Hong Kong that enabled a rigorous crackdown on the protests and subsequently stifled the democracy movement. The incident is considered the latest popular popular protest against Chinese Communist Party rule since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.