Description
Added on the 27/06/2019 15:53:24 - Copyright : Wochit
Hong Kong, May 28 (EFE/EPA).-Several prominent pro-democracy activists of Hong Kong were sentenced on Friday to up to 18 months in prison for convening an unauthorized protest in October 2019, according to local media reports.The harshest sentences were handed to former lawmakers, Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan and Leung Kwok-hung (known in the city as "Long Hair"), and to Figo Chan, convener of the Civil Human Rights Front, an organization that convened some of the largest demonstrations during the 2019 anti-government protests, public broadcaster RTHK reported. (Camera: MIGUEL CANDELA). SHOT LIST: THE EXTERIOR OF THE WEST KOWLOON LAW COURTS BUILDING AHEAD OF NATIONAL SECURITY SUSPECT MEDIA MOGUL JIMMY LAI'S ARRIVAL FOR THE COURT VERDICT IN HONG KONG.
Hong Kong, Apr 30 (EFE/EPA).- Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and three other fellow advocates were convicted Friday by a local court of participating in an unauthorized 2020 assembly commemorating China’s Tiananmen crackdown.Wong, 24, Lester Shum, 27, Tiffany Yuen, 27, and Jannell Leung, 26, among Hong Kong’s young generation of pro-democracy activists, appeared at the District Court to plead guilty to one count of knowingly taking part in the unauthorized Jun. 4 candlelight vigil in Victoria Park. The event marked 31 years since Chinese armed forces killed hundreds of protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.“Even when the world changes, we will not change ourselves!” said Wong after the hearing before leaving the dock. The activist is currently serving two jail terms totaling almost a year and a half for protest-related charges. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF HONG KONG PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS JOSHUA WONG, LESTER SHUM, AND TIFFANY YUEN, IN HONG KONG.
Hong Kong, Apr 16 (EFE/EPA).-: Former lawmaker Martin Lee Chu-Ming and other eight activists were called in Friday at the West Kowloon court in Hong Kong to be sentenced for unauthorized assembly during a protest in 2019.(Camera: JEROME FAVRE)SHOT LIST: FORMER LAWMAKER MARTIN LEE CHU-MING ARRIVES AT THE WEST KOWLOON COURT IN HONG KONG, CHINA.
Hong Kong, Mar 1 (EFE/EPA).- Hundreds surrounded a court Monday in Hong Kong to show support for 47 pro-democracy politicians and activists who made their first appearance before the judge a day after police charged them for conspiring to subvert state power under a national security law.In an event not seen since the enforcement of coronavirus-related social distancing rules months ago, and since the Beijing-imposed security law took effect in the city in June, the pro-democracy crowd grew in the early morning outside West Kowloon Magistrate. (Camera: JEROME FAVRE). SHOT LIST: PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS GATHER TO SHOW SUPPORT OF ARRESTED FELLOW ACTIVISTS OUTSIDE THE WEST KOWLOON COURT IN HONG KONG.
Hong Kong, Feb 4 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Jerome Favre).- Activists and prominent Hong Kong opposition leaders appeared in court on Friday over charges related to a demonstration held on June 4, 2020.In total, 24 people face charges for that vigil that would violate the Hong Kong security law.FOOTAGE OF OUTSIDE THE HONG KONG COURT ON FRIDAY.
Hong Kong, Jan 6 (EFE/EPA).- Hong Kong's police on Wednesday arrested several pro-democracy lawmakers and and dozens of other politicians and activists for their alleged violation of the contentious national security law, public broadcaster RHTK reported.Many of the opposition politicians, including several former lawmakers, were arrested for their participation in primaries in July ahead of the September legislative elections, which were finally postponed by the authorities on the pretext of the coronavirus pandemic. (Camera: JEROME FAVRE).SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF THE MA ON SHAN POLICE STATION, HONG KONG, CHINA; THE SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, NATIONAL SECURITY DEPARTMENT, LI KWAI-WAH, SPEAKS DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE WANCHAI POLICE HEADQUARTERS BUILDING IN HONG KONG, CHINA AND PRESS AS WELL AS POLICE WAIT OUTSIDE THE BUILDING WHERE US LAWYER JOHN CLANCEY WORKS IN HONG KONG, CHINA.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
