HKFP reports
The group was said to have intended to “frustrate and hinder the jurisdiction of the court to adjudicate and conclude the criminal proceedings” against four fugitive protesters, who had failed to attend court dates linked to 2019 protest-related charges.
The case against four fugitive Hong Kong protesters who allegedly hid for two years and a man who allegedly helped them hide has been moved to the city’s District Court, where they could face up to seven years in prison if convicted.
Fung Ching-wah, Tsang Chi-kin, Ansen Wong, Alex Wong, and Yip Ho appeared at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts in front of Acting Principal Magistrate Veronica Heung on Wednesday.
The five stand accused of “doing an act or a series of acts tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice.”
The prosecution’s request to transfer the case to the city’s District Court, where the maximum penalty for perverting the course of justice is seven years in prison, was granted by the magistrate.
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