Fourteen anti-WTO protesters facing charges of unlawful assembly after last Saturday's riot in Wan Chai have been released on $2,500 cash bail each until Friday.
Principal Magistrate Garry Tallentire offered the same bail terms yesterday at Kwun Tong Court to all but one defendant - 11 Koreans, aged between 31 and 46, a 29-year-old Japanese man and a 41-year-old mainlander.
However, 22-year-old Taiwanese suspect - the only one allowed to leave Hong Kong - was required to furnish an added cash surety of $100,000.
Mr Tallentire said all the defendants had to undertake an identity parade requested by the police but they had the right to reject the parade if they found it unfair.
He was responding to a defence lawyer who said an identity parade lining up Japanese and Korean defendants with 'some very local-looking Hong Kong actors' had been unfair.
Prosecutor Robert Lee Kan-yung has agreed to have the defence assist in arranging actors for the lineups.
An identity parade had already been held for the Taiwanese university student and the mainland designer but they had not been picked out, he said.
