Four Hong Kong activists were found guilty on May 5 and sentenced to jail for their involvement in unauthorized anti-Beijing gatherings on National Day protests in October 2019. The heaviest jail term of four years and eight months was handed to 40-year-old janitor Chan Hang, who was caught on camera throwing objects at police and burning a banner on the street during unrest in Tsuen Wan that day, the South China Morning Post reported. He was convicted of rioting and arson. Judge Ernest Michael Lin Kam-hung sentenced the remaining three—Chan Kam-kwok, a 21-year-old kitchen worker; Lee Chun-man, a 27-year-old programmer; and Kwok Siu-kam, a 24-year-old social work assistant—to jail terms over four years. They were convicted despite a lack of evidence that they had committed any violent acts, SCMP reported. The judge ruled that even non-violent participants at the scene shared culpability. Therefore, he found the other three guilty of rioting, …
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