Hong Kong's appeal court on Friday overturned the conviction of two police officers -- and reduced the sentence of five others -- over the 2014 beating of a pro-democracy protester that was caught on video.
Hong Kong’s appeal court on Friday overturned the conviction of two police officers — and reduced the sentence of five others — over the 2014 beating of a pro-democracy protester that was caught on video.
The case before the Court of Appeal centered on the beating of protester Ken Tsang during the 2014 “Umbrella Movement”, a pro-democracy protest that occupied parts of the city for more than two months but failed to win any concessions from Beijing. The judges also reduced the other five officers’ sentences. Two received 18 months, one received 16 months and two others saw a reduction to 15 months.
But they ruled the initial trial judge’s sentence of two years for the officers was “manifestly excessive”.
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