{"id":17046,"date":"2024-03-16T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T12:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/hong-kong-jails-12-people-over-the-storming-of-the-legislature-in-2019\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T12:49:43","slug":"hong-kong-jails-12-people-over-the-storming-of-the-legislature-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/hong-kong-jails-12-people-over-the-storming-of-the-legislature-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong jails 12 people over the storming of the legislature in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced 12 people to between 54 and 82 months in prison over the storming of the city\u2019s legislature council building during a pro-democracy protest in 2019, the city\u2019s public broadcaster RTHK said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            RTHK said the defendants were convicted of rioting on July 1, 2019, when a large group of protesters smashed through glass doors and stormed Hong Kong\u2019s legislative council building after weeks of mass demonstrations.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Deputy District Court judge Li Chi-ho said the storming of the building represented a challenge to the Hong Kong government and had long-lasting effects on the city, according to RTHK.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Among the defendants, actor Gregory Wong was sentenced to six years and two months in prison, while activists Ventus Lau and Owen Chow were jailed for four and a half years and 61 months, respectively, RTHK reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Two reporters who were previously acquitted of rioting were fined 1,500 Hong Kong dollars ($192) and 1,000 Hong Kong dollars ($128) for entering the legislature, according to RTHK.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            <em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em>    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced 12 people to between 54 and 82 months in prison over the storming of the city\u2019s legislature council building during a pro-democracy protest in 2019, the city\u2019s public broadcaster RTHK said. RTHK said the defendants were convicted of rioting on July 1, 2019, when a large group of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}