Activists in HK plead guilty to subversion

Five Hong Kong activists, including Joshua Wong Chifung, pleaded guilty on Monday to subversion charges for their involvement in an illegal poll two years ago, which the prosecution said was planned to paralyze the special administrative region government by seizing control of the legislature.

In a case management hearing on Monday, three of them-Jeremy Tam Man-ho, Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu and Kwok Ka-ki－told the High Court that they hope to have their mitigation and sentencing before the trials of their co-defendants who pleaded not guilty to the same charge in the same case.

Meanwhile, Wong and activist Tam Tak-chi remained open about when to receive their sentences.