[1st NSL sentencing] Tong Ying Kit has been sentenced to NINE years in prison for “inciting secession” & “engaging in terrorist activities” because he flew a flag and drove a motorcycle into a police crowd. Handpicked judges, jury denied — this trial is unjust from the beginning.
NINE YEARS for waving a flag and dangerous driving. Let's just face the truth: rule of law in Hong Kong is gone and the court is weaponized to persecute protestors severely.
Activist Tong Ying-kit jailed for 9 years in HK's first national security case https://t.co/pd3K31eUfR
For voicing his beliefs, flying a flag with a slogan that represents the spirit of millions of Hongkongers, Tong Ying-kit received a 9-year sentence under #NSL. Tong is in his prime time and now he will spend 9 years of his youth behind the iron bars of this brutal regime.
So the man whose act of murder sparked #CarrieLam's extradition law that precipitated #HongKong's crisis over the past two years is in a safe house, while a man who waved a flag with a political slogan is jailed for 9 years
What happened to the rule of law & justice in #HK?
Police said they have arrested a man for insulting the national anthem and flying a pre-handover Hong Kong flag while watching the Olympics in a Kwun Tong shopping mall
So #TongYingkit gets 9 years, but a police officer who rammed his motorbike into protesters is given "suitable advice"
#HongKong's judicial independence has gone, impunity for police brutality prevails
https://t.co/3i3dvux2vW
Tong was given a 6.5-year jail term for inciting secession and an 8-year jail term for engaging in terrorist activities, 2.5 years will be served concurrently.
6.5 years for flying a protest flag and 8 years for barely hurting 3 police officers.
https://t.co/eWiGzv7C5h
Tong Ying Kit, the first person convicted under #nationalsecuritylaw will face 9 years in prison for terrorist activities and inciting secession, in a watershed ruling with long-term implications for the city’s judicial landscape. via @jamespomfret https://t.co/TGA0BbmmUo
Totally outrageous
9 years for waving a flag with a slogan that scares Chinese Communist Party regime
Yet another example of Beijing's all-out assault on freedom of expression in #HongKong
We now need targeted sanctions against #CCP and #HK regimes
https://t.co/hlA58lNWOM
#BREAKING: Tong Ying-kit is sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Tong is the first person convicted under Hong Kong's national security law. He was given 6.5 years for inciting secession, and 8 years for terrorism; parts of the two sentences will be served concurrently.