Hong Kong prosecutors seek prison terms for new legislator Nathan Law and student leader Joshua Wong
Department of Justice prosecutors say immediate jail term is only option, as it challenges community service sentences handed down to Occupy leaders
Hong Kong prosecutors want newly elected lawmaker Nathan Law Kwun-chung and student leader Joshua Wong Chi-fung to be jailed immediately as they seek to overturn an earlier sympathetic court ruling against the pair over their roles in storming government headquarters two days before the 2014 Occupy protests began.
Wong, 19, and Law – both key figures in the pro-democracy movement two years ago – were sentenced last month by a local court to 80 and 120 hours of community service respectively.
Another student leader, Alex Chow Yong-kang, 25, was given a three-week jail term, suspended for one year.
The three were found guilty by Eastern Court of taking part in an unlawful assembly and inciting others to take part on September 26, two days before the Occupy protests went into full swing.
A Department of Justice spokesman previously confirmed it would review the trio’s sentence, and on Thursday Wong revealed the details on his Facebook page.