Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Ivan Lam, Agnes Chow jailed over 2019 Wan Chai police HQ siege
- The trio previously pleaded guilty to their roles in a 15-hour siege of police headquarters in the early days of last year’s anti-government unrest
- Magistrate Wong Sze-lai had harsh words for Joshua Wong in particular, calling him ‘selfish’, and accusing him of ‘challenging police’s authority’
Wong’s high-profile comrade, Agnes Chow Ting, was sentenced to 10 months behind bars for her role in the same illegal protest, while their associate, Ivan Lam Long-yin, received a seven-month term.
In passing sentence, West Kowloon Magistrate Wong Sze-lai sharply criticised Wong, for challenging the authority of the police force in a premeditated plot, and called him “selfish” for obstructing traffic at the massive rally in Wan Chai on June 21 last year.
She said they had committed their offences at a time of “social unrest and large-scale public protests”, which “makes this case more serious”.
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Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Ivan Lam sentenced to prison
Wong, 24, was given a 13½-month prison term after pleading guilty to a charge of organising an unauthorised assembly and another charge of inciting others to take part in the event. Prosecutors dropped a charge of knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly.
Lam, 26, had pleaded guilty to a charge of incitement, while Chow, 23, had admitted to charges of incitement and taking part in an unauthorised assembly.
