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Timeline of SENTENCING

A regularly updated list of protestors and pro-democracy activists arrested, prosecuted or imprisoned by the Hong Kong government. (Last updated: 3rd January 2024)

(Photo credit: Philip Fong/AFP)


29th December

  • 3 Hong Kong students jailed up to 6 years for ‘terrorism’ over foiled 2021 bomb plot.(HKFP)

21st December

  • Hong Kong woman jailed for 6 months over removing potential evidence against sister arrested under nat. security law.(HKFP)

13th December

  • Nine people will face sentencing over unlawful assembly near the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019, where intense clashes broke out amid the extradition-bill protests and unrest.(HKFP)

12th December

  • 4 people jailed up to 3 years and 9 months for rioting during Hong Kong’s 2019 unrest.(HKFP)

7th December

  • Artist behind ‘freedom’ graffiti across Hong Kong sentenced to 1-year probation order.(HKFP)

24th November

  • 2 University of Hong Kong students jailed over mourning death of man who stabbed police seek to appeal sentence(HKFP).

  • Hong Kong clerk jailed for 4 months after calling for downfall of China’s Communist Party on online forum.(HKFP)

22nd November

  • 7 people jailed for up to 1 year over 2019 unlawful assembly in Hong Kong.(HKFP)

20th November

  • Hong Kong man jailed for 5 weeks over obstruction of police at Prince Edward MTR station on 31st August 2019.(HKFP)

17th November

  • Hongkonger gets 5 months jail for possessing 2 laser pointers, 4 years after arrest.(HKFP)

3th November

  • Hong Kong student who made ‘seditious’ online posts in Japan jailed for 2 months.(HKFP)

1st November

  • Hong Kong man jailed for 2.5 months over doxxing police officer involved in 2019 Sai Wan Ho shooting.(HKFP)

  • 6 jailed for 5 years for rioting near besieged Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019.(HKFP)

30th October

  • Elderly busker who played protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ will serve 30-day jail sentence after retracting appeal.(HKFP)

27th October

  • Hong Kong student pleads guilty to posting ‘seditious’ online speech whilst in Japan, faces up to 2 years jail.(HKFP)

18th October

  • 3 fugitive Hong Kong protesters and man who helped hide them jailed for up to 1 year and 8 months(HKFP)

  • Hong Kong student shot by police during 2019 protest jailed for 3.5 years for rioting, assaulting officer.(HKFP)

11th October

  • 5 jailed for up to 3 years and 1 month over false imprisonment of plainclothes police officer during 2019 protest.(HKFP)

6th October

  • Hong Kong man jailed for 4 months over importing ‘seditious’ children’s books.(HKFP)

5th October

25th September

  • Head of Hong Kong journalist group Ronson Chan sentenced to 5 days’ jail over obstructing police officer while reporting.(HKFP)

19th September

  • Hongkonger jailed for 2.5 years for rioting during 2019 protest when she was 16.(HKFP)

1st September

  • Hong Kong pro-democracy singer jailed for 2 years and 2 months over sedition and money-laundering charges.(HKFP)

24th August

  • 6 months jail for Hongkonger convicted of inciting others on internet forum to harm police.(HKFP)

15th August

  • Hong Kong man sentenced to 4 months in jail in absentia over posts threatening to bomb national security judge.(HKFP)

31st July

  • Hong Kong social worker sentenced to 21 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, for doxxing police officer.(HKFP)

21st July

  • 3 months’ jail for first person tried under national anthem law over use of protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’.(HKFP)