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Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 months By GANG WEN | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-07 08:46 Share
Activist, along with three others, jailed for participation in illegal assembly
Hong Kong s District Court on Thursday sentenced activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung to 10 months in jail for participating in an illegal assembly in June 2020.
The court sentenced three other activists, Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen Ka-wai and Jannelle Rosalynne Leung, who took part in the same assembly, to six months, four months and four months respectively.
Judge Stanley Chan Kwong-chi determined that the defendants had ignored from the very beginning that the meeting was unlawful under the police s objection issued on June 1, as well as the enormous risk of the assembly to descend into violence.
May 06, 2021
Joshua Wong last week admitted taking part in the unauthorised June 4 vigil.
South China Morning Post
Imprisoned Hong Kong opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi Fung on Thursday (May 6) was sentenced to 10 months’ jail for taking part in an unauthorised vigil last year commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown .
Three district councillors – Lester Shum, 27, Tiffany Yuen Ka Wai, 27, and Jannelle Rosalynne Leung, 26 – were also sentenced for their roles in the June 4 event in Victoria Park, with Shum receiving six months, and Yuen and Leung getting four months each.
The four pleaded guilty last week to knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly, an offence punishable by five years in prison.
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