Hong Kong protests: former lawmaker Au Nok-hin spared jail over loudspeaker assaults on police officers
- Au vows to appeal against the convictions after Kowloon City magistrate sentences him to 140 hours of community work
- The former pan-democrat legislator was found guilty earlier this month of two counts of assaulting a police officer at anti-government rally last year
An ousted lawmaker who was found guilty of assaulting two police officers with a loudhailer at an anti-government rally in Hong Kong last year was spared jail on Friday, before revealing he would appeal the convictions.
Au Nok-hin was ordered at Kowloon City Court to perform 140 hours of community work for damaging the hearing of one officer and attacking another during a stand-off between protesters and police in Mong Kok in the early hours of July 8.
Outside the court, Au said he was wrongly convicted, adding: “I have decided to appeal this case … I do believe that I am not guilty.”
Au was found guilty of attacking Constable Kwan Chi-ho by hitting his shield three times using a microphone connected to the loudspeaker, when Kwan and other officers cleared the protest scene on Nathan Road near Dundas Street and Hamilton Street.