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Hong Kong court finds 7 democracy activists guilty of unauthorized assembly

They will next appear in court on April 16, where mitigation pleas will be heard before sentences are handed down. Taking part in an unlawful assembly or a riot in Hong Kong can result in a maximum sentence of up to 10 years imprisonment for serious offences. Pro-democracy activist Lee Cheuk-yan waves to supporters as he arrives at the West Kowloon Courts for the verdict in a landmark unlawful assembly case, in Hong Kong on Thursday.(Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Ahead of the trial, supporters and some of the defendants gathered outside the court, shouting, Oppose political persecution, and, Five demands, not one less, in reference to demands by democracy supporters that include amnesty for those arrested in the protests as well as universal suffrage in the semi-autonomous region.

Veteran Hong Kong democracy leaders convicted over peaceful rally

A court in Hong Kong has found seven prominent pro-democracy politicians and campaigners guilty of unauthorised assembly over their role in a peaceful protest that was one of the biggest rallies in the Chinese-controlled city in 2019. Those convicted on Thursday include media tycoon Jimmy Lai, as well as 82-year-old Martin Lee, who helped launch the city’s largest opposition Democratic Party in the 1990s and is often called the former British colony’s “father of democracy”. The silver-haired Lee and the others sat impassively as district court judge Amanda Woodcock handed down her decision. “I have found after trial the prosecution able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that all of the defendants together organised what amounted to an unauthorised assembly,” the district court judge noted in the full written judgement.

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