Hong Kong protests: two 16-year-old students plead guilty to rioting in Admiralty in 2019
- Security cameras caught three instances of the two teenagers hurling objects at a government building on September 29, 2019
- District Judge Anthony Kwok will hear mitigation on June 7, pending reports on the defendants’ psychological and psychiatric assessments
The District Court heard that the teenagers, whose names were withheld by the Post, were among 500 protesters who rioted in Admiralty after a 20,000-strong march from the Sogo department store in Causeway Bay on September 29.
Public prosecutor Jennifer Tsui Sin-chi said police did not receive any notification about the protest and had issued multiple warnings for the demonstrators to disperse, fired tear gas and deployed water cannon in a bid to quell the violence.
Protesters on Tim Wa Avenue hurled petrol bombs, bricks, stones and other hard objects at the Hong Kong government headquarters, with some using large catapults to launch their projectiles.
A number of petrol bombs landed on the water-filled barriers surrounding the buildings, setting them on fire.
Some protesters also flashed laser pointers at police amid the standoff.