The sentencing comes as government critics say Beijing is intensifying its crackdown on Hong Kong's opposition and wide ranging freedoms guaranteed by the 1997 handover off the former British colony.

在判刑之前，政府批評者稱，北京正在加強對香港反對派的打壓，以及1997年從前英國殖民地移交的廣泛自由的保障。

Authorities in China and Hong Kong reject their assessments.

中國和香港的當局拒絕接受他們的評估。

Thier protest in question near Hong Kong's police headquarters last June came when the city's sometimes violent pro democracy rallies were already in full swing.

去年6月，他們在香港警察總部附近的抗議活動時，香港有時會出現暴力的民主集會，當時香港的民主集會已經全面展開。

Wang's longtime colleagues, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lamb, was sentenced to 10 and seven months respectively on charges linked to the same siege.

王的長期同事Agnes Chow和Ivan Lamb因與同一圍攻事件有關的罪名分別被判處10個月和7個月。

One first rose to prominence during the city's pro democracy umbrella movement in 2014 and has continued activism has drawn the wrath of Beijing.

有一位在2014年的城市民主雨傘運動中首次嶄露頭角，持續的活動招致了北京的憤怒。

Wang disbanded his pro democracy group Demo Sisto, just hours after China's parliament passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong this summer.

就在中國議會今年夏天通過了一項針對香港的全面國家安全法之後的幾個小時，王健林解散了他的親民主團體Demo Sisto。