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Hong Kong protests: actor Gregory Wong admits going to Legco was ‘foolish’ amid 2019 social unrest, as he contests rioting charge
- Movie and television actor, 44, is among six men standing trial on a joint rioting charge over break-in at Legco building by anti-government protesters on July 1 four years ago
- Wong says he went to vandalised complex that night to deliver two chargers to an unknown reporter covering the incident
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A Hong Kong actor contesting a rioting charge has admitted it was ‘foolish’ of him to insist on going to the Legislative Council after anti-government protesters stormed and trashed the building in mid-2019.
Gregory Wong Chung-yiu, 44, told West Kowloon Court on Friday that the real reason for his presence in the vandalised complex was to deliver two chargers to an unknown reporter covering the break-in on July 1 four years ago.
“I understand it was a very foolish thing to do, but at the time I was purely thinking about that,” the television and film star said in the witness box.
Wong is among six men standing trial on a joint rioting charge arising from one of the most chaotic chapters of the 2019 social unrest.
Seven others, including protest organiser Ventus Lau Wing-hong, 29, and former student leader Althea Suen, 27, pleaded guilty before the trial began in May.
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