Hong Kong democracy campaigners Joshua Wong and Nathan Law have been freed from prison on bail pending an appeal against their sentences for inciting illegal assembly.
The jailing of the young activists in August for their part in the 2014 Occupy protests came amid a crackdown on opponents of Beijing in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Human rights groups said the sentences handed down to Wong and Law, and more than a dozen other activists, made them Hong Kong’s first “political prisoners” — a term rejected by the city’s Beijing-appointed government.
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