Protesters broke into Hong Kong's parliament building in summer of 2019. 12 of those arrested have now been sentenced to prison terms of up to seven years.
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 incident is considered the latest popular uprising against Chinese Communist Party rule since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. The following year, Beijing passed a so-called security law in Hong Kong that enabled a rigorous crackdown.