Hong Kong court sentences 2 Mong Kok rioters to 3 years in jail
0 Comment(s)
Print
E-mail Xinhua, May 10, 2019
The High Court of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Thursday sentenced two participants of the 2016 Mong Kok riot to three-year imprisonment each.
One of the defendants, Yung Wai-yip, had been convicted of two counts of rioting and one of assaulting police.
The other one, Yuen Chi-kui, had pleaded guilty to two counts of rioting and one of arson.
The judge, Albert Wong, said the two stayed at the riot scene for over eight hours and were well aware of the situation.
He added that they did not act on impulse, and a deterrent sentence was needed.
Yung and Yuen were among the hundreds of rioters who violently clashed with the police in streets of Hong Kong's Mong Kok district during the Lunar New Year holiday in 2016. Over 100 people, most of them policemen, were injured in the riot.
Over 90 participants were detained after the riot and over 20 of them have been found guilty of rioting.
Two of the convicted were sentenced last year to jail for six years and seven years each, so far the longest jail terms of the Mong Kok riot cases.
Go to Forum >>0 Comment(s)