The Hong Kong Legislative Council shock case 12 The defendants riots were prison

(Hong Kong Comprehensive News) The Hong Kong court made a judgment on the impact of the Legislative Council during the 2019 anti -repair campaign. The 12 defendants were guilty of riots and sentenced to 54 months from 20 days to 82 months in prison.

Comprehensive Sing Tao Daily reported that on July 1, 2019, a large number of anti -repair demonstrators in Hong Kong impacted the Legislative Council building and destroyed a number of facilities.Hong Kong artists Wang Zongyao, former Hong Kong University Student Union Sun Xiaolan, including Sun Xiaolan, was charged with riots. Among them, eight of them pleaded guilty.

The Hong Kong West Kowloon Magistrate Court Court on Saturday (March 16) ruled that four of them were crime. The remaining two reporters Huang Jiahao and Ma Qicong said that they stayed on the scene as reporters on the scene to shoot and interview.However, the crimes of "entering or staying in the conference hall" were established.

Two reporters were fined 1,000 yuan (Hong Kong dollars, the same below, S $ 171) and 1,500 yuan, and the remaining defendants were sentenced to 54 months to 82 months in prison.

Li Zhihao, judge of the district and court, said that the violence involved in the case occurred in the Legislative Council with a unique constitutional status and symbolic significance, which was extremely serious and impacted the rule of law in Hong Kong.Only to complete the repair, which has a far -reaching impact on society.

For the defendant and Hong Kong artist Wang Zongyao, Li Zhihao said in the judgment that although Wang Zongyao had no violence and only stayed on the scene for about 5 minutes, the short stay was not a reasonable reason.He said that if everyone is like Wang Zongyao's joining halfway, the riots will continue to extend, and the appearance of Wang Zongyao is also an encouragement to other riots.

The judge agreed to the minimum participation of Wang, with 6 and a half years as the starting point. Based on the case, he did not have the case and agreed with most of the programs, and finally sentenced to 6 years and 2 months.

The prosecution pointed out that at 1:30 pm on July 1, 2019, more than a thousand demonstrators gathered outside the Legislative Council building, and used iron cages, iron branches and other items to impact the glass curtain wall outside the building, and then broke into the building into the building.Destruction was performed inside, and the demonstrators did not leave until the early morning of the riot police cleared.