A Hong Kong district court convicted five Chinese University (CUHK) students of rioting and breaching a mask-ban during a protest in 2019. On Sep. 3, the judge charged five students, aged between 20 to 23, with joint counts of rioting and using face covering during an illegal assembly on Nov. 11, 2019. Two students—20-year-old Hui Yi-chuen and 21-year-old Foo Hoi-ching—were convicted of an additional count, possession of offensive weapons or tools for unlawful purposes. The ruling comes two years after students organized massive protests in mid-2019 after the city government announced plans to allow extradition to mainland China. Hongkongers marched against Beijing’s encroachment over local affairs. To quell protests, the city leader Carrie Lam invoked her emergency power to implement a mask ban in public gatherings later in October. The public anger soon boiled over into violence, and tensions escalated after local police fired live rounds at protesters who were …