Four Hong Kong men were convicted of rioting Thursday over the storming and ransacking of the city s legislature in 2019, part of a pro-democracy movement that posed an unprecedented challenge to the Beijing-backed government.
Four Hong Kong men were convicted of rioting Thursday over the storming and ransacking of the city's legislature in 2019, part of a pro-democracy movement that posed an unprecedented challenge to the Beijing-backed government.In 2020, Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong that outlawed most dissent and crushed the democracy movement.
Four Hong Kong university students attempted to file an appeal overturning their riot convictions and sentences on Tuesday. However, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal unanimously refused to grant them lea.
HONG KONG: Four Hong Kong students, including two minors, were sentenced on Thursday (May 25) over their roles in an anti-government plot to set off bombs in public spaces. A court sentenced the oldest of the four to more than five years in prison and sent the other three to juvenile rehabilitation centres