In Hong Kong, a 17-year-old student was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for participating in the 2019 riots. The Standard newspaper writes about it.
The teenager pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers last July. Then a crowd of radical protesters surrounded law enforcement officers in a shopping center and began to beat them with umbrellas. Two other participants, aged 24 and 51, received four years in prison.
Last year, anti-government rallies took place in Hong Kong over an extradition bill that allowed the transfer of criminals to mainland China. The initiative was withdrawn, but the protests continued until mid-November and were accompanied by violence against the police.
Law enforcement officers detained about nine thousand protesters during the actions. There were many schoolchildren and university students among them.
