Teenage activist Tony Chung Hon-lam, already awaiting trial under the national security law, has been sentenced to four months in jail in a separate case today of desecrating the Chinese flag and taking part in an unlawful assembly more than 18 months ago. The former convenor of the pro-independence group Studentlocalism was said to have deliberately insulted the national flag as scuffles broke out between pro-government and pro-democracy demonstrators outside the Legislative Council on May 14 last year. Chung was already being remanded behind bars before the sentence, as he awaits trial on charges of secession, money laundering and sedition. He is one of the four people to be charged so far under the national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong.

Source: The Standard December 29, 2020 09:56 UTC