Case against Occupy protesters including Joshua Wong ‘shouldn’t have taken a year to get to court’
A Hong Kong magistrate today told prosecutors it should not have taken them so long to bring Occupy protesters to court, as student leaders including Joshua Wong Chi-fung appeared before her almost a year after the pro-democracy movement began.
A magistrate yesterday told prosecutors it should not have taken them so long to bring Occupy protesters to court, as student leaders from the movement including Joshua Wong Chi-fung appeared before her almost a year after the pro-democracy protests began.
Principal Magistrate Bina Chainrai was speaking to the prosecutor in charge of the case against student Chui Tsz-chun, one of eight defendants pleading not guilty at Eastern Court to several charges related to events a day before the Occupy protest got into full swing in September.
The prosecutor said he would like to see the case dealt with soon as it was “straightforward”, to which Chainrai replied: “If it is pretty straightforward, it should not take a year to prosecute.”
In court yesterday, former Federation of Students secretary general Alex Chow Yong-kang, 25, faced one count of taking part in an unlawful assembly on September 26 and 27, while his successor, Nathan Law Kwun-chung, 22, faced one charge of inciting others to take part in an unlawful assembly on those days.
Wong, 18, the convenor of student activist group Scholarism, faces both charges over alleged offences on September 26.
