Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee, Among 10 HK Dissidents to Be Sentenced Over Outlawed Pro-Democracy Protest

'The government can lock us up behind bars but they cannot lock up our mind'

Margaret Ng, Lee Cheuk-yan, and Figo Chan, the convener of the local pro-democracy group Civil Human Rights Front, speak to reporters outside of the West Kowloon court building in Hong Kong, on April 16, 2021. Sung Pi-lung/The Epoch Times

10 Hong Kong dissidents are expected to be sentenced on April 16, including media mogul Jimmy Lai, for taking part in unauthorized assemblies in 2019 during the height of the anti-Beijing, pro-democracy movement.

Lai and six other dissidents attended a mitigation hearing at the West Kowloon court building in the morning, over their roles at a protest on Aug. 18, 2019. The seven dissidents were found guilty in March of unauthorized assembly charges after they were arrested in April last year.