Eleven pro-democracy figures jailed in the landmark “Hong Kong 47” national security case have won permission to appeal to the city’s top court. The Court of Appeal on Monday issued a certificate for the activists, who were jailed in the city’s largest national security case for conspiracy to commit subversion, to take their case to the Court of Final Appeal. Eleven pro-democracy figures jailed in the landmark “Hong Kong 47” national security case win permission to appeal to the city’s top court. Monday’s decision stemmed from the Hong Kong 47 case, in which 45 defendants were convicted of conspiracy to commit subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law in May 2024. Beijing inserted national security legislation directly into Hong Kong’s mini-constitution in June 2020 following a year of pro-democracy protests and unrest.