By Christine Coleman
Edited by Elissa D. Hecker
Entertainment
Prosecutors Accuse Sean Combs of Trying to Contact Witnesses From Jail
Prosecutors accused Sean Combs of continuing efforts to obstruct the federal racketeering and sex trafficking case against him from a Brooklyn jail, alleging that the music mogul had been trying to evade government monitoring by seeking to arrange three-way phone calls and to buy the use of other inmates’ phone privileges. The government’s account came a week before another hearing to decide whether Combs would be granted release on bail.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/arts/music/sean-combs-diddy-accused-witnesses-jail.html
How a Tale of Sean Combs Sex Tapes Landed One Man in Court
Prosecutors recently subpoenaed Courtney Burgess to testify in front of a grand jury considering additional charges against Combs. Burgess, a one-time music industry bit player, has said that he had been given videos that showed sexual encounters involving Combs and a variety of other stars, including some he said looked to be inebriated and underage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/arts/music/sean-diddy-combs-sex-tapes-courtney-burgess.html
Swifties Are Suing Ticketmaster Over Price Gouging — This Time Using the RICO Act
A group of nearly 400 Taylor Swift fans are suing Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, with allegations of colluding with partner organizations to intentionally drive up ticket prices. The complaint, filed in California state court, expands on an existing federal court case accusing the companies of engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity. Plaintiffs allege that Ticketmaster and Live Nation have behaved in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and assert that the companies colluded with stadium venues and other partners in a way that constitutes an illegal enterprise.
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/17/swifties-are-suing-ticketmaster-over-price-gouging/
Jussie Smollett’s Conviction for False Hate Crime Claim Is Overturned
The Illinois Supreme Court overturned the actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges that he lied to the police about being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019. The court ruled that Smollett had been unjustly prosecuted after he had already reached a deal to resolve the case without jail time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/arts/jussie-smollett-conviction-overturned.html
Court Asked to Review Ed Sheeran ‘Thinking Out Loud’ Legal Victory
Despite Ed Sheeran’s court victories last year in which he successfully fended off accusations that his hit song “Thinking Out Loud” copied Marvin Gaye’s iconic song “Let’s Get It On”, one of the cases may yet find itself back in court. Structured Asset Sales, the owner of part of the rights to “Let’s Get It On,” is asking an appeals court to overturn one of last year’s court rulings, arguing that a new Supreme Court decision means that the previous ruling in the case no longer applies.
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/court-asked-to-review-ed-sheeran-thinking-out-loud-legal-victory/
PRS Files Lawsuit Against Live Nation Over VIP Ticketing
PRS, the UK’s collective licensing organization that represents songwriters and music publishers, is suing Live Nation in the UK High Court. PRS is alleging that Live Nation is not properly breaking down the way VIP ticketing works, meaning that music creators could be missing out on money due to them from live performances.
https://completemusicupdate.com/prs-files-lawsuit-against-live-nation-over-vip-ticketing-saying-live-giant-shows-disregard-for-creators-rights-to-proper-payment/
Arts
Will a ‘Trump Bump’ Help the Art Market’s Biggest Week?
Speculative investments have risen in anticipation of a new Republican administration’s anti-regulatory agenda, and the auction world hopes that it can ride an economic boom to recovery after nearly two years of declining sales. The November auction season that starts this week in New York will test the willingness of the ultrarich to spend a pile on artworks. They will compete to own more than 1,600 lots that are estimated to raise at least $1.1 billion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/arts/sothebys-auction-art-market-biggest-week.html?searchResultPosition=1
Who’s Laughing Now? Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s
A 2019 conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. The banana art (not the original banana) that for years has stirred controversy in the art world sold for $6.2 million with fees at Sotheby’s contemporary art auction. The Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun placed the winning bid, besting six other rivals, which experts said was a sign that even a struggling market would spend big on spectacle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/arts/design/cattelan-banana-sothebys-auction.html
Sports
Imane Khelif Taking Legal Action Regarding Reports Claiming She is a Man
Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who was at the center of a gender row during her gold medal run at this year’s Paris Olympics, is set to take legal action against a report in France that claimed to have accessed a leaked medical report that confirms she is a ‘DSD’ (Differences in Sexual Development) athlete and should not have been able to compete in the women’s category at the Games.
https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/imane-khelif-legal-action-medical-reports-claiming-man-ioc-9656914/
Four Women Runners Brutally Killed in Kenya: 'It’s no longer safe for any athlete'
The majority of Kenyan runners train in the town of Ite. In Kenya, it has been named “the home of champions”. In recent years, it has become known for something else. Kenyan runners Rebecca Cheptegei, Damaris Muthee Mutua, Edith Muthoni, and Agnes Tirop were each killed after a financial dispute involving their partner. Athletes around Iten worry that they will not be the last victims of the ongoing femicide.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5915075/2024/11/16/olympics-athletes-kenya-cheptegei/?searchResultPosition=2
South Africa's Soccer President Danny Jordaan Arrested on Fraud and Theft Charges
South African Football Association (SAFA) president Danny Jordaan, who helped bring the first-ever FIFA World Cup tournament to Africa in 2010, has been arrested on fraud and theft charges. He is accused of using about R1.3 million ($72,372 USD) of SAFA funds to hire a PR firm and a private security company for his personal benefit.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/south-africas-soccer-president-danny-jordaan-arrested-fraud-115806882
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Son of Ex-Global Athletics Chief Diack to Face New Trial
Papa Massata Diack, whose father, Lamine Diack headed the IAAF (now called World Athletics) from 1999 to 2015, was one of six men convicted in France in 2020 for hushing up 23 Russian doping offences in exchange for Russian sponsorship contracts. The Cour de Cassation, France’s highest court, ruled that that the case be reheard at the Paris appeals court.
https://sportstar.thehindu.com/athletics/papa-massata-diack-trial-world-athletics-head-lamine-russian-doping-charges/article68838012.ece
Technology/Media
U.S. Proposes Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly
The Justice Department and a group of states asked a federal court to force Google to sell Chrome, its popular web browser, a move that could fundamentally alter the $2 trillion company’s business and reshape competition on the internet. The request followed a landmark ruling in August by Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that found that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search. Judge Mehta asked the Justice Department and the states that brought the antitrust case to submit solutions by the end of Wednesday to correct the search monopoly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/technology/google-search-chrome-doj.html
Trump Picks Brendan Carr to Lead F.C.C.
President-elect Donald J. Trump chose Brendan Carr to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr is a veteran Republican regulator who has publicly agreed with the incoming administration’s promises to slash regulation, go after Big Tech, and punish TV networks for political bias.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/technology/fcc-nominee-brendan-carr-trump.html?searchResultPosition=1
Trump Tells Republicans to ‘Kill’ Reporter Shield Bill Passed Unanimously by House
Trump instructed congressional Republicans to block the passage of the PRESS Act, a bipartisan federal shield bill intended to strengthen the ability of reporters to protect confidential sources, dealing a potentially fatal political blow to the measure, even though the Republican-controlled House had already passed it unanimously. The call by Trump makes it less likely that the bill will reach the Senate floor and be passed before the current session of Congress ends next month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/trump-press-act-freedom-reporters.html?searchResultPosition=2
China’s Hacking Reached Deep Into U.S. Telecoms
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner, said in an interview that China’s recent breach of the innermost workings of the U.S. telecommunications system reached far deeper than the Biden administration has described. Hackers have been able to listen in on telephone conversations and read text messages. The breach was engineered over the past year by a group linked to Chinese intelligence that has been named “Salt Typhoon” by Microsoft, which cybersecurity team discovered the hack in the summer. Government officials have been struggling to understand what China obtained and how it might have been able to monitor conversations held by a number of well-connected Americans, including Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/china-hacking-telecommunications.html
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) banned the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for any purpose last year, citing security concerns with the technology as well as the propensity of some tools to exhibit “bias, unpredictability, and malicious behavior,” according to an April 2023 internal guidance memo. Employees can use “state-of-the-art generative AI models” at work, but only inside the agency’s internal testing environment. Outside of the testing environment, USPTO staff are barred from relying on AI programs for work tasks and using of any outputs from the tools, including AI generated images and videos. USPTO employees can use some approved AI programs, such as those within the agency’s own public database, for looking up registered patents and patent applications.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-patent-trademark-office-internally-banned-generative-ai/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_111924&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_c
OpenAI and Microsoft Demand That NYT Prove AI is Hurting News Business
OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are demanding the New York Times Co. supply documents detailing the newspaper’s claims that the tech companies’ AI models have decreased subscription, licensing, advertising, and affiliate revenue. According to OpenAI and Microsoft’s separate letters requesting a pre-motion conference on the documents filed in the Southern District, those details are important to analyze if the tech giants’ use of the Times’ content to train AI systems is “fair use” under the Copyright Act.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/openai-microsoft-demand-nyt-prove-ais-hurting-news-business
Ziff Davis Study Says AI Firms Rely on Publisher Data to Train Models
According to new research from executives at Ziff Davis, one of the largest publicly traded digital media companies, leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Meta rely more on content from premium publishers to train their large language models (LLMs) than they publicly admit. These findings are significant, because publishers believe that the more they can show that their high-end content has contributed to training LLMs, the more leverage they will have in seeking copyright protection and compensation for their material in the AI era.
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/05/ai-training-data-publishers-ziff-davis
How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment
Over the past fifteen years, Google had made deletion the default in its internal communications. Among its tools to achieve this were using legal privilege as an all-purpose shield and imposing restraints on its own technology, while continually warning that loose lips could sink even the most successful corporation. How Google developed this distrustful culture was pieced together from hundreds of documents and exhibits, as well as witness testimony, in three antitrust trials against the Silicon Valley company over the last year. The plaintiffs were trying to establish monopoly behavior, which required them to look through emails, memos, and instant messages from hundreds of Google engineers and executives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/technology/google-antitrust-employee-messages.html
Labels Told Apple Six Times to Kick Musi Out of App Store
Apple has told a court in California that it should dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by music streaming app Musi, after the latter was kicked out of Apple’s App Store in September, following a complaint from YouTube. Apple says that it also received numerous complaints from other record industry organizations, and that Musi knows what the issues are with its repurposing of YouTube content.
https://completemusicupdate.com/labels-told-apple-six-times-to-kick-musi-out-of-app-store-new-legal-filing-reveals/
The Onion’s Bid to Acquire Infowars Is Now Messy
The sale process of InfoWars to the satirical media outlet The Onion has been drawn out by an unexpected twist in the bankruptcy proceedings when First United American Companies, a bidder affiliated with Alex Jones, raised an 11th-hour objection to the deal. Since then, a flurry of court filings has put a spotlight on the final act of the bankruptcy proceedings, which have proved to be just as chaotic as those that preceded them. The outcome of First United American Companies’ effort will become clear after a hearing on Monday, set by Judge Christopher Lopez in a federal bankruptcy court in Houston, to review the bidding process.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/business/media/the-onion-infowars-alex-jones.html?searchResultPosition=1
Spotify Playlists and Podcasts Are Being Abused by Spammers to Link to Pirate Websites — Here’s a Look at How the Scam Works
Spotify’s playlists and podcast pages are being abused by spammers to link to pirate websites offering games, ebooks, and other downloads. On Spotify’s webpage, spammers are injecting keywords into playlist and podcast titles to advertise pirated games, books, and movies for download. Google then indexes these Spotify pages and delivers them as top results when anyone searches those specific keywords.
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/11/19/spotify-playlists-podcasts-abused-by-spammers/
General News
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Fresh Challenge to Agency Power
The Supreme Court, which dealt a major blow to the power of federal agencies in June, agreed to consider whether Congress violates the Constitution by delegating broad discretion to them. The so-called nondelegation doctrine has been largely dormant since 1935, when the Supreme Court struck down New Deal laws for granting too much leeway to agencies with insufficient guidance. A decision reviving the doctrine would be the latest in a sustained series of attacks on what its critics call the administrative state.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/supreme-court-fcc-agency-power.html
Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations
Trump confirmed that he intended to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military in some form to assist in his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants in a response to a post made on his social media platform, Truth Social. The was post made earlier this month by Tom Fitton, who runs the conservative group Judicial Watch, and who wrote that Trump’s administration would “declare a national emergency and will use military assets” to address illegal immigration “through a mass deportation program.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/trump-military-mass-deportation.html
Dr. Martin Makary Chosen to Head the F.D.A.
Trump announced that he would nominate Dr. Martin A. Makary, a Johns Hopkins University surgeon with a contrarian streak, to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Adminitration. Dr. Makary rose to prominence more than a decade ago as a critic of the medical establishment, speaking out about patient safety and working with hospitals to improve practices. He also gained attention during the pandemic, weighing in on herd immunity, vaccines, and masks in 2021, roiling some doctors who were still contending with packed I.C.U.s and hundreds of deaths a week.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/health/fda-commissioner-marty-makary-rfkjr.html
Trump Chooses Dr. David Weldon, a Former Congressman, to Lead the C.D.C.
Trump chose Dr. David Weldon, a former congressman, to serve as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Weldon is a native of Long Island and earned a medical degree in New York before moving to Florida to practice. As a member of Congress, Dr. Weldon pushed the false notion that thimerosal, a preservative compound in some vaccines, had caused an explosion of autism. Trump’s choice signals yet again his commitment to reforming the role of federal health agencies in radical ways.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/health/weldon-cdc.html
Trump Taps Wall St. Executive Howard Lutnick for Commerce Secretary
Trump picked Howard Lutnick to serve as commerce secretary, tapping a billionaire Wall Street executive for one of the most prominent and increasingly powerful economic positions in the federal government. Lutnick, the chief executive of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, has emerged as a central economic adviser to Trump over the past year and has been leading the president-elect’s transition team. He has called for tariffs to protect U.S. industries from foreign competition, lower corporate taxes, and an expansion of American energy production.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/howard-lutnick-trump-commerce-secretary.html?searchResultPosition=1
Trump Chooses Longtime Ally Linda McMahon to Run Education Dept.
Trump tapped Linda McMahon, a former professional wrestling executive who ran the Small Business Administration for much of his first term, to lead the Education Department, an agency he has routinely singled out for elimination in his upcoming term. She has no teaching background or professional experience steering education policy, other than an appointment in 2009 to the Connecticut State Board of Education, where she served for just over a year. She is likely to be assigned the fraught task of carrying out what is widely expected to be a thorough and determined dismantling of the department’s core functions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/linda-mcmahon-education-secretary-trump.html
Trump’s Education Secretary Pick Named in Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
McMahon has been accused in a recent lawsuit of failing to stop a ringside announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment from grooming and sexually abusing children in the 1980s and 1990s. The lawsuit claims that five underage boys were sexually abused by the organization’s ringside announcer and ring crew chief, Melvin Phillips Jr., who died in 2012. It was filed in Maryland against McMahon, her husband Vince McMahon, W.W.E., and TKO Group Holdings. The suit accuses the McMahons and the other defendants of criminal negligence by allowing Phillips to remain at the company for years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/linda-mcmahon-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-trump-education-secretary.html
Trump Plans to Nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to Oversee Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare
President-elect Donald J. Trump said that he would nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz, the author and former television host, to serve as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful agency that oversees health insurance programs covering more than 150 million Americans. The selection of Dr. Oz was a surprise to many close watchers of the agency. It also continued a trend of Trump selecting television personalities to oversee federal agencies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/trump-dr-oz-medicare-medicaid.html
Labor Secretary Pick Is Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a first-term Republican representative from Oregon who narrowly lost her House seat this month, was chosen to serve as labor secretary in the coming Trump administration. A moderate from a swing district that includes parts of Portland, Chavez-DeRemer is not a major figure in American labor politics. However, she was one of only a few House Republicans to support major pro-union legislation, and she split her district’s union endorsements with her Democratic opponent, Janelle Bynum, earning nods from ironworkers, firefighters, and local Teamsters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/business/economy/labor-secretary-lori-chavez-deremer-trump.html
Federal Inquiry Traced Payments From Gaetz to Women
Federal investigators have established a web of payments among Matt Gaetz and dozens of friends and associates who are said to have taken part with him in drug-fueled sex parties. The document was assembled by federal investigators during a sex-trafficking investigation into Gaetz. Among those who received money from Gaetz were two women who have testified that he hired them for sex. The payments to the women ultimately totaled around $10,000.
Joel Leppard, a lawyer representing the two women who testified, told multiple news outlets that one of the women described witnessing Gaetz having sex with an underage girl at a party in 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/matt-gaetz-venmo-payments-sex.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/matt-gaetz-sex-allegations-house-ethics.html
Trump Picks Pam Bondi, Florida’s Former Top Prosecutor, for Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws
Trump nominated Pam Bondi to be attorney general, turning to a longtime loyalist who served as state attorney general in Florida to put his stamp on a Justice Department that he sees as politically hostile to him. Trump announced her selection hours after his first choice, Gaetz, withdrew from consideration amid a growing consensus that he could not be confirmed by the Senate because of allegations that he had taken part in drug-fueled sex parties.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/pam-bondi-attorney-general-trump.html
House Republicans Target McBride With Capitol Bathroom Bill
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina announced plans to introduce a measure to bar transgender women from using women’s restrooms and changing rooms in the Capitol complex.
Her resolution targets Representative-elect Sarah McBride, who is the first transgender member of Congress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/sarah-mcbride-nancy-mace-capitol-bathroom-bill.html
Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Lead New ‘DOGE’ Panel on Government Efficiency
Leading Republicans have agreed to allow Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene to serve as the chairwoman of a new subcommittee that will partner with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to “eliminate government waste.” The committee, which has yet to be created, will work with the new Department of Government Efficiency, known as “DOGE.” The rise of Rep. Greene signals the ascendancy of the MAGA wing of the G.O.P. in Congress, where Trump’s most loyal allies will occupy prominent posts next year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-doge-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy.html
Trump’s Sentencing in New York Is Officially on Hold
New York judge Juan M. Merchan postponed Trump’s sentencing in his Manhattan criminal case, confirming that the former and future president would not receive his punishment this week. Trump was convicted in May of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal and was scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday, but his election victory made that all but impossible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/nyregion/trump-sentencing-postponed.html?searchResultPosition=1
White Supremacist Incidents Are Rising Across the U.S.
Flash displays of hate and white power are happening more frequently in the United States, a trend that experts say is a reaction to changing demographics, political turmoil, and social catalysts. More than 750 such incidents have taken place since 2020, according to the Anti-Defamation League, with more than half of them occurring in the last eighteen months. Almost every week, small white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups have been descending on downtowns, gathering in public parks or rallying on the grounds of state houses and courthouses across the country, often posting and earning widespread streaming of the events on social media platforms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/trump-neo-nazi-anti-government-groups.html?searchResultPosition=1
Texas Education Board Backs Curriculum With Lessons Drawn From Bible
Texas education officials backed a new elementary school curriculum that infuses material drawn from the Bible into reading and language arts lessons. The optional curriculum has already drawn protests in Texas, which has emerged as a leader in the ascendant but highly contested push to expand the role of religion in public schools. The new curriculum could become a model for other states. The vote was preliminary and the final vote is expected to take place later in the week with the same outcome.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/texas-bible-curriculum-public-schools.html
Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements. The slashing of core classes across the state, which has often been based on course titles and descriptions, is meant to comply with a state law passed last year that curbed “identity politics” in the curriculum. The law also bars classes from the core that “distort significant historical events” or that include theories that “systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/florida-social-sciences-progressive-ideas.html
At 17, She Just Passed the State Bar of California
At seventeen years and eight months old, Sophia Park is believed to be the youngest person to pass the state’s bar exam, besting the previous record-holder: her older brother, Peter, who passed the exam in November 2023, when he was seventeen years and eleven months old. Sophia achieved this feat while taking advanced courses online from home, enabling her to graduate from high school, college and law school in about four years. After she turns eighteen in March, Sophia will join her brother Peter at the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office in Tulare County, Calif., as a prosecutor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/california-bar-exam-sophia-park.html?searchResultPosition=1
Ukraine Fired U.S.-Made Missiles Into Russia for First Time, Officials Say
Ukraine’s military used American-made ballistic missiles to strike into Russia for the first time, according to senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials, just days after President Biden gave permission to do so in a major shift of American policy. The pre-dawn attack struck an ammunition depot in the Bryansk region of southwestern Russia using six ballistic missiles known as ATACMS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/world/europe/ukraine-russia-atacms-missiles.html
Dozens of Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders Are Jailed Up to 10 Years
Forty-five pro-democracy leaders were sentenced by a Hong Kong court to prison for organizing or taking part in the 2020 primary by the opposition camp. The sentences were the final step in a crackdown that cut the heart out of the city’s democracy movement, turning its leaders into a generation of political prisoners. Among them were veteran politicians, former journalists, and younger activists who had called for self-determination for Hong Kong. It was the most forceful demonstration of the power of a national security law Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in response to months of large protests against Chinese rule in 2019.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/world/asia/hong-kong-democrats-sentenced.html?searchResultPosition=1