Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong wins appeal to reduce jail sentence by 2 months over role in banned Tiananmen vigil
- Court of Appeal rules in favour of Wong, judges order reduction, plus two months from unauthorised assembly sentence to be served concurrently with two other cases
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The Court of Appeal on Wednesday also ordered that two months of the sentence should be served concurrently with the 17½ months he had received for two other cases.
The rulings by Justices Maggie Poon Man-kay and Anthea Pang Po-kam shortened Wong’s current sentence to 23½ months, for his involvement in three unauthorised assemblies since the social unrest began in 2019.
Wong was jailed for 10 months in May, after admitting that he had knowingly taken part in an unauthorised assembly, an offence punishable by up to five years in prison, at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay on June 4, 2020.
The District Court previously heard that the candlelight vigil drew about 20,000 participants, despite police banning the annual event for the first time since 1990 amid concerns over the risk of Covid-19 infections.
