(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 27 - A 31-year-old young man was sentenced to 21 months in prison by a Hong Kong court for throwing eggs at a police station in the latest, in chronological order, a heavy sentence issued by a court while authorities are moving to suppress political dissent in Chinese territory.
In pronouncing the sentence, magistrate Winnie Lau said that while "an egg is not a weapon of mass destruction", throwing such objects into a police station has resulted in "discontent" with law enforcement, undermining agents' actions. and put the company in jeopardy, according to the public broadcaster RTHK.
The case of Pun Ho-chiu, CNN reports, comes as courts face a backlog of thousands of arrests linked to last year's political unrest, during which Hong Kong was shaken for months by increasingly violent anti-government protests.
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