HONG KONG - A Hong Kong court adjourned early on Tuesday after a democracy activist fainted during a marathon hearing of 47 people charged with conspiracy to commit subversion, as authorities intensify a crackdown on the opposition.
Following over 12 hours of submissions from defence lawyers on bail applications that ran deep into the night, democrat and district councillor Clarisse Yeung fainted in the courtroom and had to be sent to hospital by ambulance.
Her condition was not immediately known.
The magistrate, Victor So, adjourned proceedings to later on Tuesday, with around half the defendants’ applications yet to be heard.
On Monday, about 1,000 people defied rules limiting group gatherings to four to curb the spread of the coronavirus, in the biggest protest this year. Protest slogans rang out throughout the day against the arrest of the 47 activists before crowds thinned out in the evening.
Wednesday 21 April 2021
asiaone - 2 month ago
Hong Kong democrat faints in court after protesters gather for landmark subversion hearing
Latest News
Foreign brides are getting older and more educated: MSF data released for the first time
- straitstimes PRA Health Sciences expands its response to COVID-19 with pharmacovigilance solutions for authorized vaccines and therapeutics
- asiaone Chinese envoy was staying at bombed hotel in Pakistan but not present when hit: Pakistan minister
- todayonline Chinese envoy was staying at bombed hotel in Pakistan but not present when hit - Pakistan minister
- todayonline Xiang Yun shares daughter s experience with unauthorised bank transactions, cautions others to be careful
- mothershipHashtags:
democrat
|faints
|court
|after
|protesters
|gather
|landmark
|subversion
|hearing
|
11 more Covid-19 cases detected at Westlite Woodlands hundreds to be moved to quarantine facility
- straitstimes
3 months jail for man who set fire to Hotel 81 towels after being rejected when trying to book room for 3
- mothership S pore woman allegedly told to wear t-shirt as swimsuit too revealing for other fathers at swim school
- mothership Opus One Solutions’ GridOS® Platform to Prepare Singapore for a Renewable Energy Future for a Low Carbon Economy
- asiaone U.S. imposes new Myanmar sanctions, targets two state-owned enterprises -Treasury website
- todayonline S.Korean police want to question Belgian ambassador s wife after store incident prompts anger
- todayonline South Korean police want to question Belgian ambassador s wife after store incident prompts anger
- todayonline Sole Covid-19 community case in S pore is systems engineer at Parkway Pantai healthcare group
- straitstimes Fatal accident sparks fresh calls to ban ferrying of construction workers on lorries, install seat belts
- todayonline Bombardier’s Worldwide Network of Line Maintenance Stations Expands to its Tenth Location – Geneva, Switzerland
- asiaone Russian billionaire s son helped father hide wealth in record UK divorce case, court rules
- todayonline TigerGraph Continues to Drive Graph Analytics and AI Market Momentum, Unveils TigerGraph Cloud on Google Cloud Platform and Expanded Global Developer Community
- asiaone Sources