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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong will face an additional 10 months in jail for participating in an unauthorised assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the brutal 1989 crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Wong, 24, already in prison due to other illegal assembly convictions and among 47 activists charged under the city’s sweeping national security law, was sentenced in the District Court on Thursday.
A 15-month sentence was reduced to 10 due to his guilty plea for attending the vigil. He will have to serve the sentence consecutively, instead of concurrently.
Last year was the first time the June 4 vigil was banned in the territory, with police citing coronavirus restrictions on group gatherings, as it did for all demonstrations last year.
Wong, 24, already in prison due to other illegal assembly convictions and among 47 activists charged under the city s sweeping national security law, was sentenced in the District Court on Thursday.
Chow Hang-tung, left, the vice-chairwoman of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, speaks to the media Thursday after activist Joshua Wong was jailed.(Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
A 15-month sentence was reduced to 10 due to his guilty plea.
Judge Stanley Chan also sentenced Lester Shum, Jannelle Leung and Tiffany Yuen to between four and six months. Twenty others facing similar June 4 Tiananmen Square anniversary charges are due to appear in court on June 11.
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Hong Kong, May 6 (EFE).- Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced Friday to 10 months in jail for joining an annual vigil commemorating the Tiananmen Massacre in June, which was banned due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
It was the third time in five months the 24 year old was handed a jail sentence for taking part in pro-democracy rallies. The latest jail term will be added to two others he received and is currently serving, totaling 17 and a half months, for his roles in unauthorized protests held during the 2019 anti-government protest movement in Hong Kong.
“It is clear that what the defendants did was premeditated… They openly defied the law, knowing that they had no authority for taking part in an unauthorized assembly,” District Court Judge Stanley Chan said before announcing the sentence.