All nine pro-democracy leaders found guilty for their roles in Hong Kong’s 2014 Occupy movement have been granted bail and will find out their sentences in two weeks.
Judge Johnny Chan Jong-herng adjourned court until April 24 just before noon on Wednesday after hearing mitigation from all nine leaders, who were a day earlier convicted of at least one charge related to public nuisance.
They were the three founders of the Occupy movement – academics Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Dr Chan Kin-man and Reverend Chu Yiu-ming – alongside lawmakers Shiu Ka-chun and Tanya Chan, former lawmaker Lee Wing-tat and young activists Tommy Cheung Sau-yin, Raphael Wong Ho-ming and Eason Chung Yiu-wa.
While all defence lawyers asked West Kowloon Court to consider community service as a punishment, Judge Chan sought a report to study its possibility only for Cheung, meaning he closed the door on that option for the others.
