HONG KONG—A 21-year-old Hong Kong lifeguard, the first pro-democracy protester to plead guilty to the charge of rioting during last year’s unrest, was sentenced to four years’ jail on May 15 for a “direct attack on the rule of law.”
Sin Ka-ho was among thousands who surrounded the Legislative Council on June 12 in a bid to stop lawmakers from giving a second reading to a since-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
