Hong Kong protests: six opposition figures remanded in custody ahead of sentencing for 2019 National Day rally

Figo Chan, 25-year-old convenor of march organiser the Civil Human Rights Front, is the youngest of the defendants, all of whom have pleaded guilty

Mitigation for the six, along with four others already in custody, will be heard on Monday, with sentencing to follow on May 28

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Civil Human Rights Front convenor Figo Chan arrives at the District Court on Tuesday. Photo: Winson Wong

Published: 3:38pm, 18 May 2021Updated: 11:28pm, 18 May 2021

Six Hong Kong opposition figures have been remanded in custody ahead of their sentencing next week for organising an unauthorised protest on National Day amid the anti-government movement in 2019.

District Judge Amanda Woodcock’s ruling on Tuesday came a day after the group pleaded guilty to one count of organising an unauthorised assembly, alongside four co-defendants – media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying among them – already remanded over separate convictions or alleged offences.

Woodcock will hear mitigation next Monday and sentence all 10 defendants on May 28.

Prosecutor Priscilia Lam Tsz-ying had asked the District Court to revoke the six defendants’ bail following their convictions, while their defence lawyers resisted the application.

The six are: Democrats Albert Ho Chun-yan, Sin Chung-kai and Yeung Sum; Richard Tsoi Yiu-cheong of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China; and League of Social Democrats members Avery Ng Man-yuen and Figo Chan Ho-wun.

Albert Ho of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party arrives at his court hearing on Tuesday. Photo: Winson Wong

Chan, 25, is the youngest defendant in this case and convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front, the group behind the annual July 1 protest, which coincides with the anniversary of the city’s handover from Britain to China in 1997.