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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...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Hong Kong man with autism has been sentenced to a 12-month probation order, after he pleaded guilty to inciting others to kill the chief executive and police officers. District Judge Josiah Lam on Wednesday ordered defendant Chan Chun-ho, 21, to follow a probation order of 12 months, during which he must abide by the law, maintain good behaviour, receive medical treatment and take medication for his mental condition. Chan had been detained for more than seven months since he was arrested last October on one count of inciting others to intend to cause grievous bodily harm. He was said to have...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Hong Kong man who tried to flee to Taiwan while facing a charge linked to the 2019 protests has been jailed for three years and 10 months, after he pleaded guilty to a petrol bomb plot and perverting the course of justice. District Judge Ernest Lin put defendant Tang Kai-yin behind bars on Tuesday, almost eight months after the 34-year-old finished serving a three-year sentence in mainland China, local media reported. He was among 12 Hongkongers intercepted by Chinese coastguards in August 2020, when they attempted to escape to Taiwan on a speedboat. Most on board were on bail pending trial ...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to two years and nine months in jail for rioting in a case relating to the Yuen Long attack in 2019, marking the first sentence for someone not involved in the attack on train passengers and protesters that night. Jacky Ho, a 43-year-old accountant, was found guilty of a rioting offence last Friday. The case marked the first time that someone not part of the white-shirt group involved in the initial attacks was convicted of rioting. On July 21, 2019, over 100 rod-wielding men stormed Yuen Long MTR station leaving 45 people injured – including journalists, pro...
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