Second Hong Kong localist issued arrest warrant for violating bail terms before Mong Kok riot trial
Court order comes week after another activist charged in last year’s unrest in busy shopping district failed to return his passport following trip to Europe
A second man alleged to have taken part in a riot in a busy Hong Kong shopping district last year was hit with an arrest warrant on Saturday, a week after a leading pro-independence activist was served a similar order.
Neither Wong nor Li appeared at the hearing on Saturday. It was held in preparation for the trial slated to open on January 18.
At the closed-door proceeding, Madam Justice Anthea Pang Po-kam issued a second arrest warrant for Wong. It supersedes the first warrant issued for the activist on December 1 after he failed to return his passport to police on November 22 following a judge-approved trip to Germany.
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Wong was granted bail weeks after the disturbances last year on HK$100,000 cash bail and a HK$100,000 cash surety from his mother. He was also ordered to live at a reported address and remain in Hong Kong.