HK Judge Lenient With Triad Member Convicted in Violent Yuen Long Attack

Netizens: 'Hong Kong judiciary is a joke'

Men in white T-shirts and face masks attack anti-extradition bill demonstrators and reporters at a train station in Hong Kong, on July 21, 2019, in this still image obtained from a social media live video. Courtesy of Stand News/Social Media via Reuters

It has been more than three years since the July 21 attack on the Yuen Long Station platform in Hong Kong in 2019. Seven people, including gang leader Ng Wai-nam, better known to his peers as “Fei Tin Nam,” were earlier convicted of rioting. Another defendant, Ching Wai-ming, was convicted of rioting by the District Court and the case was then moved to West Kowloon Law Courts, for a follow-up hearing on Sept. 7.

The presiding judge believed that this “man in white” (Ching) did make an agreement to hurt people that night, but what he did was just “a small punishment to prevent them [the victims] from their future bigger fall.” He thought this was different from the usual gangland warfare episodes of hiring hitmen for some vicious intention that have occurred before.