Hong Kong protests: opposition activist Agnes Chow pleads guilty in relation to incident outside police headquarters last year
- Chow was charged with incitement and knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly
- Fellow activists Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam plead not guilty and cases sent to trial at Kowloon Court
Chow, 22, admitted in court on Monday incitement and taking part in an unauthorised assembly, before telling the media outside she was mentally prepared for serving time in jail.
But Principal Magistrate Bina Chainrai did not sentence Chow at Eastern Court, as Wong, 22, had denied the same charges and also pleaded not guilty to a third count of organising the public meeting in Wan Chai on June 21.
A third defendant, Ivan Lam Long-yin, 25, pleaded not guilty to the count of incitement to knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly, a charge with a maximum penalty of three years in prison.
Their cases will move to West Kowloon Court for trial and sentencing, after Wong and Lam’s pretrial review, which is scheduled for August 5. All three were released on bail.
Chow was arrested in August last year alongside Wong, her fellow Demosisto party member, during a high-profile arrest targeting student leaders, a district councillor and a pro-independence activist.