Jimmy Lai pleads guilty to organising unauthorised assembly

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong, in this file picture from Sept 3, 2020. - China Daily

HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and nine others pleaded guilty Monday (May 17) to organising an unauthorised assembly on Oct 1,2019.

Other than Lai, former legislators Albert Ho Chun-yan, Lee Cheuk-yan, Leung Kwok-hung, Yeung Sum, Cyd Ho, Sin Chung-kai, and activists Figo Chan, Avery Ng and Richard Tsoi pleaded guilty in District Court to one count of organising an unauthorised assembly.