News Analysis

Going back four years to the year of 2013, Hong Kong experienced a mostly peaceful protest in which those taking part in it were sitting and blocking a large amount of area. What were they protesting? Well, the online TIME magazine has a very concise explanation of what happened and why .   TomoNews Us Since then what has happened? Several people have been identified and arrested and convicted of “ unlawful assembly ” and “ inciting subversion of state power ” among other things. The latest of a series of people being sentenced since the OccupyCentral protest , Cheung Kai-yin, Ma Po-kwan, Wong Lai-wan, and Yeung Ho-wah, were let off lightly.   They will not be spending several years behind bars but instead will be forced to pay HKD10,000 (around 110 Euros) each as a fine as well as having a suspended jail sentence. Mr Justice Chan gave Ma six months to pay the fine, having considered his “unstable income”. The other three had to settle the fine in three months. Their one-

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