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Hong Kong, Aug. 15, 2017 (dpa/NAN) A Court of Appeal in Hong Kong on Tuesday, sentenced 13 protestors who forced their way into a meeting to protest a development project in Hong Kong’s north-eastern, New Territories in June 2014.
They face eight to thirteen months in prison, the South China Morning Post reported.
The protestors include Ivan Lam, a member of Joshua Wong’s political party, Demosisto, the party said in a statement.
The Hong Kong government appealed the ruling of the lower court which gave the protestors 80 t0 150 hours of community service and sought harsher punishments for them.
In its ruling in 2016, the Appeal court described the lower court sentence by the lower court as “manifestly” inadequate.
The court said that the new sentences were intended to be a deterrent, the Post reported but there are indications that most of the 13 will to appeal.
In another development, activist Joshua Wong and two others will on Thursday know whether they will receive harsher sentences for their roles in the 2014 pro-democracy protests. (Dpa/NAN)
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Edited by Celine-Damilola Oyewole/Dada Ahmed