In July 2021, the four had issued a statement supporting a man who stabbed a policeman. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Police officers at the site where a man stabbed a policeman then stabbed himself in the chest in Hong Kong on July 2, 2021.
District Court Judge Adriana Noelle Tse Ching said that the students had committed a very serious offence by inciting hatred against the police.The students included Charles Kwok, 22, a former student union president. Kwok and the other student union council members had issued a statement, which they later withdrew, in which they mourned 50-year-old Leung Kin-fai, whoThe students were initially arrested and charged with advocating terrorism under Hong Kong’s national security law in August 2021.
Beijing imposed the national security law on Hong Kong in 2020 after months of anti-government protests. The law punishes acts including subversion, collusion with foreign forces and terrorism with up to life in prison.
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