A kitchen worker who admitted taking part in an illegal protest in 2019 has been jailed for 43 months for rioting and breaching the Hong Kong government’s ban on wearing masks in public meetings.
The jail term handed to Derek Chan Chun-ling on Thursday marked the heaviest sentence to date slapped on a protester over the disturbance in Wan Chai on October 6, 2019, one day after the Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation took effect.
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