Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 months

Activist, along with three others, jailed for participation in illegal assembly

Hong Kong's District Court on Thursday sentenced activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung to 10 months in jail for participating in an illegal assembly in June 2020.

The court sentenced three other activists, Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen Ka-wai and Jannelle Rosalynne Leung, who took part in the same assembly, to six months, four months and four months respectively.

Judge Stanley Chan Kwong-chi determined that the defendants had ignored from the very beginning that the meeting was unlawful under the police's objection issued on June 1, as well as the enormous risk of the assembly to descend into violence.