Hong Kong’s High Court is set to hand down its verdict on seven defendants charged under a UN anti-terrorism law – the first such case in the city’s history – with six of them facing life imprisonment over their roles in a thwarted bomb plot to kill police during the social unrest of 2019.
The jury retired on Tuesday for deliberations, four months after the trial of the defendants, including members of the “Dragon Slaying Brigade”, began in April.
