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Seventeen people have received jail sentences ranging from one year and eight months to five years and 10 months after they were convicted over dramatic rope escapes from a besieged Hong Kong university during the 2019 protests. District Judge Lily Wong on Tuesday meted out prison terms to 17 people who were involved in daring attempts to flee the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in mid-November 2019. Dozens of protesters shimmied down ropes from a footbridge to flee the campus in Hung Hom, which was surrounded by the police amid violent clashes between protesters and officers. Some pe...
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Well, we have been waiting four years for some judicial explanation of an enduring mystery, and we’re still waiting. What could possibly be wrong with holding a primary election? We have some progress. Looking at the outcome of the trial of the 16 pro-democracy figures who pleaded not guilty to conspiring to commit subversion over their involvement in said poll, it appears that it was not the primary as such which was the problem. The problem was what they said they were going to do afterwards. Leaving aside the lurid things which some candidates said or wrote in the exciting pre-election atmo...
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Five years since the first arrests linked to Hong Kong’s 2019 protests were made, only 28 per cent of the more than 10,000 people arrested have been prosecuted, leaving question marks over what will happen to the remaining 72 per cent. From June 9, 2019 – when over a million Hongkongers took to the streets opposed to a proposed amendment to an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to China – until March this year, 10,279 people had been arrested in connection with the protests. Over the months that followed that first mass march, demonstrations escalated into so...
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Two protesters jailed for rioting in a Hong Kong shopping mall in July 2019 have been ordered to pay up to HK$1.7 million each in damages to cover the injury-related costs of two police officers. Leung Pak-tim and Lee Man-him – who served time in prison over their involvement in a protest in New Town Plaza, in Sha Tin, on July 14, 2019 – recently received letters from the Department of Justice (DoJ) demanding money to cover paid sick leave and other expenses for two officers deployed to the demonstration. The DoJ said it was representing the police chief in making the demand. The letters, date...
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The court has allocated 14 days to hear the mitigation pleas from 40 prominent Hong Kong democrats involved in the city’s largest national security case. When the submissions begin on July 2, most of the defendants will have already been detained for over three years. Activist Joshua Wong, journalist-turned-activist Gwyneth Ho, and veteran activist Leung Kwok-hung, who is better known as “Long Hair”, as well as former lawmakers, are among those due in court for mitigation before a panel of three judges arrive at sentencing. According to the court schedule, the defendants will appear in court i...
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Four pre-democracy figures in the landmark national security case involving 47 Hong Kong democrats will appear in court later this month for mitigation, according to the judiciary’s website. The court date was scheduled days after the High Court last Thursdayconvicted 14 former activists and lawmakers of conspiring to commit subversion. They now join 31 democrats who earlier pleaded guilty to the charge in awaiting sentencing. Two of the 47 democrats were cleared, although the government has announced it intends to appeal their acquittals. Former district councillors Andrew Chiu and Ben Chung,...
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Hong Kong leader John Lee has warned of people potentially “hijacking” the anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown to disturb public peace. Tuesday marked 35 years since hundreds, if not thousands, were killed when China’s People’s Liberation Army cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing. When asked during his weekly press briefing on Tuesday morning whether Hongkongers were permitted to publicly commemorate the crackdown, Lee gave no direct answer. “All activities by any persons must be conducted according to the law,” he said. National security police have invoked Hong Kong’s new s...
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A court verdict that saw 14 democrats convicted under a Beijing-imposed security law last week shows there are “real risks” to national security, Hong Kong leader John Lee has said. The Chief Executive commented on the verdict for the first time on Tuesday, days after Hong Kong’s High Court convicted 14 democrats charged with participating in a conspiracy to commit subversion under the national security legislation. “The defendants made use of the so-called primaries and planned to secure a majority of seats in the Legislative Council… and indiscriminately veto the budgets and public works pro...
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A deceased Hong Kong activist funded a trip for radical protesters to receive “military training” in Taiwan during the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations and unrest, a court has heard. Prosecution witness Eddie Pang, who has been testifying in the city’s first-ever trial under a UN anti-terrorism act, told the High Court on Monday that Edward Lau had paid for seven protesters to visit Taichung in September 2019, where they were trained by a veteran Taiwanese soldier on military tactics and firing weapons. Lau, an activist known for his role in 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, reportedly di...
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Eight people have been convicted of rioting in Yau Ma Tei in 2019, a verdict that marks the last one for riot trials linked to protests sparked by a university campus siege. A total of 11 defendants appeared at District Court on Friday after their trial in October. They had pleaded not guilty to rioting in the vicinity of Nathan Road and Gascoigne Road in Yau Ma Tei on November 18, 2019, as clashes broke out at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in nearby Hung Hom. Wong Chun-yuen, Cheung Kin-sum and Ovin Cheung were found not guilty by judge Peony Wong, InMedia reported. The remaining eight ...
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