Hong Kong: 16 / year old guilty of protests 2019, is the youngest

(ANSA) - BEIJING, MARCH 03 - A Hong Kong teenager is the youngest person so far to plead guilty to disorderly linked to the mass pro-democracy protests of 2019, having admitted the launch of an incendiary bomb against the police at the age of 14. The judge decided to send the boy, now 16, to a detention center as an alternative to juvenile prison, for the duration to be decided by the penitentiary services of 1-6 months.

    Meanwhile, on the third day at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court in Hong Kong the hearing on the 47 pro-democracy activists arrested on Sunday and formally accused by the police of subversion, under the national security law imposed by Beijing on the former British colony at the end of June 2020. (HANDLE).