Protesters are taking to the streets again, saying they are not ‘rioting’, but the authorities are calling it ‘terrorism’
A Hong Kong policeman falls backwards during a scuffle with pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong's International Airport, in 2019. Picture: AFP/MANAN VATSYAYANA
Sin Ka-ho was among thousands who surrounded the Legislative Council on June 12 in a bid to stop legislators from giving a second reading to a since-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China. Demonstrations turned more confrontational and broadened to demands for democracy in the Chinese-ruled city amid anger at Beijing’s perceived meddling with its freedoms.
The defendant’s actions were “a direct attack on the rule of law”, district court justice Amanda Woodcock said in the sentencing, which is seen as potentially laying down a marker for the nearly 600 protesters who have been charged with rioting, risking up to 10 years in jail.
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