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.
Observers said their subversion case illustrates how the security law is being used to crush the political opposition following huge anti-government protests in 2019. But the Beijing and Hong Kong governments insist the law has helped bring back stability to the city and that judicial independence is being protected.
Sixteen others, including Leung, pleaded not guilty and underwent a non-jury trial. After the verdicts, mitigation hearings will be scheduled to determine the sentences of those convicted. “I want to give some support for my friend and the faces I saw in news reports,” he said, who is in his 30s.
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