Complex sentence: The three painstakingly printed 10,000 copies in secret but before the Manifesto could be distributed, Peng and his students were arrested and after languishing for several months, tried for sedition by a military court.
Split into simpler sentences: The three painstakingly printed 10,000 copies in secret, but before the Manifesto could be distributed, Peng and his students were arrested. They languished in jail for several months, before being tried for sedition by a military court.