Regarding your editorial “Hong Kong’s Political Prisoners” (WSJ.com, Aug. 17; Asia, Aug. 18; U.S. Aug. 19):The three defendants were imprisoned by the Court of Appeal (not the government) after a fair, open and transparent judicial process. They were convicted and sentenced not because they exercised their right to demonstrate, but for their unlawful conduct during the protest. They are not “political prisoners.”Freedom of...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2017 18:33 UTC