By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-20 06:31:41 | Updated at 2025-03-20 16:09:05
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A Hong Kong protester has been jailed for nearly four years for his role in the 2019 anti-government unrest after he was rearrested upon his return from Japan two years ago.
The District Court on Thursday sentenced Chan Wai-yiu to 45 months behind bars for taking part in a riot in Wan Chai on August 31, 2019.
The 27-year-old accounting firm employee was among a black-clad group of protesters confronting police at a section of Hennessy Road between Fleming Road and Tin Lok Lane that night.
A prosecution case summary said protesters had set fire to a makeshift barricade, defaced a signboard of pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao, hurled petrol bombs and used laser beams on police.
Riot officers attempted to disperse the crowd by firing rounds of tear gas, sponge grenades and blue dye from water cannons.
Chan was subdued at 8.21pm shortly after police began making arrests.
A police tactical unit officer struck Chan in the legs three times with a metal baton after the protester tried to resist arrest, according to prosecutors.
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