Four men plead guilty in Hong Kong’s District Court to rioting during the 2019 siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) amid the anti-government protests. According to court reports, the defendants are Cheung Chung-yiu (24), Cheung Chin-ming (29), Chan Chun-hei (22), and Chan Yuen-ming (33). They enter their guilty pleas at a hearing on Monday. The charges relate to events during the police siege of the university campus in 2019, when clashes and unrest escalated in the wider anti-extradition protest movement.
The South China Morning Post reports that a defence lawyer says one of the men later develops post-traumatic stress disorder after being tortured in “KK Park,” described as a scam compound in Myanmar. The Hong Kong Free Press focuses on the entry of guilty pleas and the identities of the defendants, without additional mitigation details. The reports do not indicate the sentencing outcomes in the excerpts provided.
