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2021-04-30 09:36:04 GMT2021-04-30 17:36:04(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HONG KONG, April 30 (Xinhua) Joshua Wong, an instigator of the Hong Kong riots, on Friday pleaded guilty to participating in an unauthorized assembly last year.
Wong and three other anti-China disruptors pleaded guilty at the District Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Friday to charges of participating in an illegal assembly in June 2020 in Victoria Park of Hong Kong.
The trial of the case, which involved a total of 26 defendants, including another instigator Jimmy Lai, started on Feb. 5. The judge adjourned the case to April 30 for the above four defendants who intended to plead guilty.
Joshua Wong pleaded guilty in the District Court
Wong was arrested in January on suspicion of breaking the new law, which was introduced in July 2020
Wong was already in prison after he was found guilty of participating and organising an unauthorised assembly during the mass 2019 pro-democracy protests
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was among four people who pleaded guilty on Friday (April 30) of participating in an illegal assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters in and around Beijing`s Tiananmen Square.
It was the first time the vigil had been banned in the global financial hub, with police citing, as it did for all demonstrations last year, coronavirus restrictions on group gatherings. It is expected to face a similar fate this year.
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong is one of four people who pleaded guilty to participating in an illegal assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
It was the first time the vigil had been banned in the global financial hub, with police citing, as it did for all demonstrations last year, coronavirus restrictions on group gatherings. It is expected to face a similar fate this year.
Still, tens of thousands of people lit candles across the city in what was largely a peaceful event last June, bar a brief skirmish with riot police in one neighbourhood.