A Hong Kong court has convicted one person and acquitted six others over a thwarted bomb plot during anti-government protests in 2019
FILE - Pro-democracy protesters wear masks depicting the hand with Chinese Communist party emblem covering their mouth during a march on a street in Hong Kong on Dec. 8, 2019. A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted one person and acquitted six others over a thwarted bomb plot duringin 2019, in the city's first case brought under a United Nations anti-terrorism law, according to local media.
The seven are not well-known activists in the semi-autonomous Chinese city’s pro-democracy movement, but their case has drawn attention because the United Nations Ordinance was invoked. Hong Kong enacted the law to implement a U.N. Security Council resolution passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
Lawyers of Lee and Lai told the court that police had assaulted their clients following their arrests. The accused sergeant denied the allegations in court.
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