A PRO-DEMOCRACY activist arrested outside a Xinhua (the New China News Agency) cocktail party asked a magistrate yesterday not to set his trial for a Wednesday.
April 5 Group member Leung Kwok-hung, 39, who described his occupation as 'freelance of everything', told Eastern Court Magistrate William Eccleton he was trying to get a legislator to represent him.
As his prospective barrister would be tied up in Legco on Wednesdays, he asked the magistrate to take this into account.
Leung pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer outside the Xinhua National Day Celebration at the Convention and Exhibition Centre on September 29 last year.
He also denied a charge of disorderly behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace.
While Xinhua director Zhou Nan welcomed improved Sino-British ties at the reception, members of the April 5 Group protested outside.