A former student leader and a detained activist were among seven people to have pleaded guilty to rioting in relation to the storming of Hong Kong’s legislature on July 1, 2019.
Althea Suen, who was the head of the University of Hong Kong’s students’ union and Ventus Lau entered their guilty pleas alongside Lo Lok-sang, Amy Pat, Pun Ho-chiu, Shum Keng-lok and Fan Chun-man in front of Deputy District Judge C. H. Lee at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court, which acted as a district court for the case, on Monday morning.
Five defendants, including actor Gregory Wong, pleaded not guilty to rioting while one remaining defendant, Ho Chun-yin, sought a medical report to prove his unsuitability to enter a plea.
All defendants were charged with rioting and breaching an administrative instruction by entering or remaining in the precincts of the Legislative Council (LegCo) Chamber. However, prosecutor William Tam said the administrative instruction charge would not proceed against those who pleaded guilty to rioting.
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