HONG KONG—Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges related to an illegal assembly during mass protests in August 2019, while seven others, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, pleaded not guilty.
The 2019 protests, fuelled by fear among locals that communist Beijing was curbing the wide-ranging freedoms promised to the former British colony upon its return to mainland rule in 1997, plunged the city into its biggest crisis since the handover.
