World IN BRIEF : CHINA : Students Sentenced for 1989 Protests

A Chinese court convicted four students for their roles in leading the 1989 pro-democracy movement. It imposed relatively light sentences of two to four years on them. Five other protesters also were tried; three received light sentences, and two, identified as students who repented, were released without punishment. The trials were the first of those at the forefront of seven weeks of marches through Beijing streets and a protracted occupation of Tian An Men Square. The uprising ended with an army attack June 3-4, 1989, that killed hundreds, perhaps thousands.