HK court sentences seven for 2019 attack on protesters at train station

Ng Wai Nam, one of the seven sentenced, arrives outside the District Court in Hong Kong in this file picture from June 18, 2021. - AFP

HONG KONG (Reuters): A Hong Kong court on Thursday (July 22) sentenced seven men to between 3-1/2 and 7 years in prison for their role in a 2019 attack on pro-democracy protesters, reporters and bystanders at a train station at the height of anti-government protests.

The July 21 attack in the northern Yuen Long district by more than 100 people wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and poles was one of the most violent scenes of the 2019 unrest.