{"id":25041,"date":"2020-11-24T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/nov\/23\/hong-kong-activists-face-jail-after-guilty-plea-video"},"modified":"2020-11-24T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:00:40","slug":"hong-kong-activists-face-jail-after-guilty-plea-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25041","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong activists face jail after guilty plea \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow arrived at West Kowloon magistrates courts to face charges related to illegal assembly stemming from a protest last year in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The trial was scheduled to begin on Monday, but after pleading guilty they were taken away ahead of a sentencing hearing on Wednesday next week.<\/p>\n<p>The trio of high-profile pro-democracy activists and former politicians,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/pro-democracy-leader-joshua-wong-arrested-in-hong-kong\">were facing multiple charges<\/a>&nbsp;over an unauthorised protest outside police headquarters in June last year, and inciting others to take part.<\/p>\n<p>They face a penalty of up to five years in prison&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/23\/hong-kong-protests-joshua-wong-guilty-police-hq-protests-agnes-chow-ivan-lam\">Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong faces jail after guilty plea over police HQ protests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-2BV14SK6TM\">Is China pushing Hong Kong further away with its new security law?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/nov\/23\/hong-kong-activists-face-jail-after-guilty-plea-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow arrived at West Kowloon magistrates courts to face charges related to illegal assembly stemming from a protest last year in Hong Kong.The trial was scheduled to begin on Monday, but after ple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[559,41,50,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25042,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041\/revisions\/25042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}