Veteran activists, barrister Martin Lee (left) and Albert Ho (R) arrive at the West Kowloon Magistrates Court in Hong Kong on Feb 16, 2021, on charges of organising an unauthorised assembly on Aug 18, 2019. - AFP
HONG KONG (Reuters): Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Feb 16) to charges related to an illegal assembly during mass anti-government protests in August 2019, while seven others, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, pleaded not guilty.
The 2019 protests, fuelled by a perception Beijing was curbing the wide-ranging freedoms promised to the former British colony upon its return to Chinese rule in 1997, plunged the semi-autonomous city into its biggest crisis since the handover.
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