HONG KONG: Hong Kong's high court on Thursday (Nov 14) sentenced a man to 23 years and 10 months in prison for being the mastermind of an alleged plot to attack police with explosives during the city's anti-China protests in 2019.
People walk past a fire lit by protesters in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong on Dec 31, 2019. HONG KONG: Hong Kong's high court on Thursday sentenced a man to 23 years and 10 months in prison for being the mastermind of an alleged plot to attack police with explosives during the city's anti-China protests in 2019.
Another defendant Wong Chun-keung, the leader of a group known as the 'Dragon Slayers' which was active during the 2019 protests, was sentenced to 13 years and six months imprisonment. The long jail terms come amid a protracted national security clampdown by China in the global financial hub, and is the first time the UN anti-terrorism ordinance has been used in Hong Kong since 2002.
Steve Li, a chief superintendent for national security in the Hong Kong police, told reporters the sentence was the heaviest for any offence linked to the 2019 protests so far, that he believed would have"a substantial deterrent effect".
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