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HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong court sentenced a 66-year-old activist known as “Grandma Wong” to eight months’ imprisonment on Wednesday, in the second jailing of a veteran Hong Kong democracy campaigner in as many days. Alexandra Wong Fung-yiu had been charged with two counts of unlawful assembly from 2019, when millions had taken part in months of protracted pro-democracy protests against a perceived tightening of Chinese Communist Party control over the city. Wong, who had initially pleaded not guilty before later changing her plea, was jailed for 32 weeks by magistrate Ada Yim in Easter…