Court approves activists? appeal applications over unlawful assembly case
Updated at 6.12pm: The Court of Final Appeal has approved an application by legislator ?Long Hair? Leung Kwok-hung and two activists to appeal against their convictions for holding an unauthorised assembly, local radio reported on Wednesday.
A judge said the court should hear their appeal because it involved issues of great public importance, local radio reported.
Mr Leung, 48, was convicted in November of 2002 for holding an unauthorised public assembly at Chater Garden in February of the same year.
Activists Christopher Fung Ka-keung, 25, and Chris Lo Wai-ming, 29, were convicted of assisting Mr Leung in organising the assembly.
The trio had been involved in a prorest against the Public Order Ordinance.
They were the first people convicted under post-1997 provisions in the ordinance. This requires protesters to notify police seven days before a rally involving more than 30 people.
Each defendant had been bound over on good behaviour for three months and ordered to sign a $500 bond.
Their previous appeals had been subsequently dismissed in a majority ruling by two judges.
The Court of Final Appeal would hear the case between April and May, local radio reported.
