Beijing accuses veteran pan-democrat of foreign collusion after Occupy protesters jailed
The attack came as the city’s justice minister Justice Rimsky Yuen denied the jailed trio were victims of political persecution.
Beijing singled out a leading Hong Kong opposition figure for scathing condemnation on Friday, accusing him of colluding with foreign forces to criticise the jailing of three student leaders.
The attack came as the city’s justice minister denied the jailed trio were victims of political persecution.
And in a rare move, the city’s two biggest legal professional bodies jointly hit out at both local and international media for suggesting there were political motives behind the six to eight-month prison terms for Joshua Wong Chi-fung, Nathan Law Kwun-chung and Alex Chow Yong-kang.
The Court of Appeal on Thursday increased the Eastern Court’s original community service and suspended jail sentences handed out to the trio for storming the government headquarters compound at Admiralty during an illegal protest that triggered the 79-day Occupy sit-ins of 2014.