Hong Kong’s high court on Thursday sentenced a man to 23 years and 10 months in prison for being the leader of an alleged plot to attack police with explosives during the city’s pro-democracy and anti-China protests in 2019.
The man, Ng Chi-hung, had been charged under the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Ordinance, for offences linked to a conspiracy to use explosives and firearms to endanger life.
Another defendant, the leader of a group known as the ‘Dragon Slayers’ which was active during the 2019 protests, was sentenced to 13 years and six months imprisonment.
The long jail terms come amid a protracted national security clampdown by China in the global financial hub, and is the first time the UN anti-terrorism ordinance has been used in Hong Kong since 2002.
