Published on: Friday, December 18, 2020 By: AFP Text Size: Former lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung (L), also known as ‘Long Hair’, convener of civil human rights front Figo Chan (centre L), former lawmaker Eddie Chu (centre R) and district councillor Tsang Kin-shing (R) arrive at West Kowloon court. HONG KONG: Eight prominent Hong Kong democracy activists were charged Thursday with taking part in an “illegal assembly” the day after Beijing imposed its broad security law, bolstering an already sweeping crackdown on dissent. Those charged included veteran activist “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, the former chief of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party Wu Chi-wai, ex-legislator Eddie Chu and Figo Chan, the organiser of an annual July 1 rally marking the British handover of the city to China in 1997.