Pro-independence activist and three co-defendants charged police during Mong Kok riot, court is told
- Prosecutor told the High Court that Edward Leung was one of four protesters who rushed police in the unrest in February 2016
- All four caught on camera charging upon the order of Hong Kong Indigenous spokesman Ray Wong, says prosecutor
Hong Kong prosecutors on Wednesday accused pro-independence activist Edward Leung Tin-kei and three men of charging at police when riots broke out in one of the city’s most popular shopping districts two years ago.
The High Court heard the four men were among crowds that grew increasingly violent as their unlawful assembly on February 8, 2016 escalated overnight into riots that lit up multiple streets in Mong Kok.
Their gathering was allegedly foreshadowed in a Facebook post published earlier in the day by local group Hong Kong Indigenous, which called on readers to “valiantly defend” the local characteristic of street hawkers from government law enforcement at Portland Street that evening.
Facing the bulk of the charges is delivery worker Yung Wai-yip, 34, who has denied three counts of rioting, and one each of taking part in an unlawful assembly, inciting others to take part in an unlawful assembly and assaulting a police officer.
