Hong Kong: First person charged under national security law sentenced to nine years
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Hong Kong defendant Tong Ying-Kit, 23, arrives at court after being accused of deliberately driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers last Wednesday on July 6, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images)
The first person to be charged under Hong Kong’s national security law has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
Tong Ying-Kit was arrested following a pro-democracy protest in the city last July in which he rode a motorbike into three police officers flying a flag with the phrase “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times”.