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Imprisoned Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to an additional ten months' imprisonment.
With three district councilors given four to six months in prison, the 24-year-old was punished on Thursday for participating in a demonstration last year to mark the anniversary of the bloody crackdown on the democracy movement in China on June 4, 1989, Hong Kong media reported.
The four defendants pleaded guilty.
Because of the pandemic, the annual candle worship was banned for the first time last year. Nevertheless, around 20,000 participants had gathered. The judge argued that there was a potential risk of violence given the crowd, as quoted by the public broadcaster RTHK. It is necessary to use the punishment to deter others from committing similar offenses.
Wong, who is considered the "face of the democracy movement" in Hong Kong, is currently in custody for his role in other 2019 protests.
He would actually have been released in November.
The district councilors are Lester Shum, 27, Tiffany Yuen Ka-wai (27) and Jannelle Rosalynne Leung (26).
You are also in custody on charges of violating the new security law.
They were refused bail release.
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The security law passed after the demonstrations for more democracy in the Chinese Special Administrative Region in July 2020 is directed against activities that Beijing sees as subversive, separatist, terrorist or conspiratorial.
The former British crown colony has belonged to China again since July 1, 1997, but is governed independently according to the principle of “one country, two systems”. This agreement actually provides that Hong Kongers will enjoy “a high degree of autonomy” and many freedoms for 50 years until 2047. Since the Security Act was passed, many have only talked about “one country, one system”.