Friday, January 13, 2006

Hong Kong WTO: afterword

For those wondering about the fate of the Hong Kong WTO Unfortunate Fourteen (see previous post), wonder no more.
On 11 January, 2006, Wednesday afternoon, charges of Unlawful Assembly were dropped against 11 of the accused. The 11 walked out of Kwun Tong Magistrates Court amid much jubilation. However, two Koreans remain charged with Unlawful Assembly, and the other Korean has now been charged with Unauthorised Assembly. The three were granted cash bail of HK$30,000 each, are allowed to leave Hong Kong, and are supposed to come back in March for a five-day trial at Fanling Court. Oh, yeah.

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