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
- 10 jailed for up to 4 years over rioting in Hong Kong’s Central district in 2019.(HKFP) 
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) 
 
          
        
      