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Hong Kong/ Politics

Convicted Occupy pair lodge judicial appeals against sentences for roles in Hong Kong’s biggest civil disobedience movement

  • Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Wing-tat and ex-student leader Eason Chung both had jail terms suspended
The Occupy leaders received sentences between 16 months and eight months suspended. Photo: Sam Tsang

Two more key figures in 2014 Occupy movement have lodged judicial appeals against their convictions for their roles in Hong Kong’s biggest ever civil disobedience movement.

The Department of Justice confirmed on Saturday that it received the notice of application for leave to appeal from former Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Wing-tat, 63, and ex-student leader Eason Chung Yiu-wa, 26, on Tuesday and Thursday respectively.