Former Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker jailed for over 3 years on riot charge from 2019 protests
A Hong Kong judge sentenced a former pro-democracy lawmaker to three years and one month in prison on a charge of riot after an incident in which he was beaten up at a subway station during the city’s anti-government protests in 2019.
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