4 plead guilty to rioting during 2019 PolyU siege in Hong Kong

Four young men have pleaded guilty to rioting during the police siege of a university at the height of the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong, with a defence lawyer saying in mitigation that one of them later developed post-traumatic stress disorder after being tortured in “KK Park” – a notorious scam compound in Myanmar.The District Court on Monday heard guilty pleas from Cheung Chung-yiu, Cheung Chin-ming, Chan Chun-hei and Chan Yuen-ming, who were aged between 16 and 27 at the time of the November 2019 riots at Polytechnic University.The four were among more than 1,300 protesters arrested in connection with the unrest inside and outside the campus. While at least 200 people were charged with rioting and sentenced before 2024, these defendants were rearrested in June that year and formally charged with one count of rioting.