now it is not the end of the fight those
are the words of the leading
pro-democracy activist joshua wong
who has just been sentenced to jail
along with two fellow activists
in hong kong um the courthouse
where they were sentenced here it is now
all very quiet there was quite a hubbub
a short while ago as joshua wong was
sentenced
to 13 and a half months agnes chao
to 10 months and ivan lam to seven
months in prison all three of them did
plead guilty last week
to charges related to a siege of the
police headquarters
during last year's huge pro-democracy
protests
they avoided tougher sentences though as
the charges were lodged
before china introduced its tough
national security
law in hong kong under the terms of
those laws
that could have been jailed for life
well martin yip in hong kong gave me
this update
magistrate wong c lie has been
describing
the three defendants role in this
incident which took place on the 21st of
june 2019 in her judgement and
she described joshua as actively
organizing this whole protest outside
outside of the police headquarters
non-stop and she said she believes
joshua did it deliberately
and then as for uh anna's shell she all
she also described her as an active
participant in the event
uh because of facts like holding the
microphone for joshua wong
as well as chanting the slogans uh
it's somehow an irony if you if you
recall what happened last year many
people caught this protest
uh since the beginning of last june as
uh
uh protest with no main stage so to
speak which means it's almost a
leaderless campaign
yet today this uh
beside of the fact that the three of
them pleaded guilty to the charges the
magistrate also found them
uh organizing uh the
the protests which some protesters might
not agree
but anyway that's the verdict that we
have from the court so if they would
have done it
any time after the 30th of june this
year the reason for me to
repeat this state is the very day where
beijing's parliaments the chinese
parliament has passed this piece of hong
kong national security law
and proclaimed in hong kong which took
into effect immediately if police
would press charges on them now if the
event takes place anytime
after uh that day uh now and police
choose to
press charges on grounds of national
security they might end up facing
uh life imprisonment or even facing
trials
trials in mainland china and freezing
times in mainland china
that's a huge difference from what
happened
when they took part in this rally last
year
yeah now obviously supporters of all
three will be
upset disappointed angry one might
expect
under certain circumstances martin for
them to want to come out and demonstrate
but uh
there are conditions attached to any
gatherings at the moment
exactly that reports of around 100
people outside of the
courthouse building showing their
support to the three of them but
yet uh the kovit 19 measures
uh coronavirus measures has just been
reset
uh at midnight this morning we are now
back to the stage where
uh any gathering of more than two people
two people
will be seen as illegal so uh anyone who
wants to come out to show that support
would really have to think twice
especially
uh when there are multiple reports
emerging at the very same time
that the government is about to announce
uh the increase of fine on these uh
covet 19 preventive measures uh
almost like uh tripling the amounts of
fine
uh that good that could have drawn from
these uh charges so uh it could be quite
a
quite um trouble for anyone who wants to
show the support to joshua
agnes and ivan