Hong Kong court jails 8 for up to 4.5 years for rioting during 2019 PolyU siege

A Hong Kong court has sentenced eight people up to 4½ years in jail for taking part in a riot as police laid siege to a university at the height of the 2019 anti-government protests.

Deputy District Judge Peony Wong Nga-yan said on Monday the eight defendants, aged between 23 and 33, had been present in the proximity of a junction in Yau Ma Tei near Polytechnic University where clashes between police and protesters took place on the night of November 18, 2019.

The eight were the final batch of the 213 people arrested near Yau Ma Tei MTR station to learn their fate after being charged. They were divided into 17 groups for trial over the past two years.

Following the court proceedings on Monday, police said that 200 out of 213 were convicted, with six being acquitted after trial and seven having absconded.

“It has been a very lengthy process. This case is unprecedented and complicated in the sense that it involved a large number of arrests,” said Superintendent Wong Yick-lung, of the force’s Kowloon East regional crime unit.

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