It’s the city’s biggest national security case under a law imposed by Beijing that has all but wiped out public dissent on the former British colony.
Gordon Ng, an Australian-Hong Kong dual citizen has been convicted by a Hong Kong court on national security charges along with 13 other pro-democracy activists.
Ng has been locked up since 2021 on the charges. The former student of Waverley College, Sydney, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.Others found guilty include former legislators Leung Kwok-hung, Lam Cheuk-ting, Helena Wong and Raymond Chan. But the three judges approved by the government to oversee the case acquitted two former district councillors Lee Yue-shun and Lawrence Lau.
They were among 47 democracy advocates who were prosecuted in 2021 for their involvement in an unofficial primary election. Prosecutors had accused them of attempting to paralyse Hong Kong’s government and topple the city’s leader by securing the legislative majority necessary to indiscriminately veto budgets.
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