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Washington has vowed to impose fresh sanctions in the form of visa restrictions on multiple Hong Kong officials responsible for implementing the national security law. The threat was in response to the “harsh sentences” a court handed down to 45 opposition activists convicted of subversion. The warning from the United States on November 19, 2024, came after the 45 were jailed for four to 10 years for their participation in a plot to overthrow the government in 2020, with former legal scholar Benny Tai Yiu-ting receiving the stiffest sentence for masterminding an unauthorised legislative “primary” election to subvert state power.
