Two men who participated in riots outside the Diocesan Girls’ School in Jordan during PolyU’s “Siege of Wei and Rescue of Zhao” on November 18, 2019, have had their appeal rejected by the Court of Appeal. Chen Ziqian and Huang Shizhe were among nine individuals who were charged with taking part in the riot. Two men were previously sentenced to 38 months in prison following being convicted of rioting. Despite refusing to accept their conviction and file an application for leave to appeal, the Court of Appeal has stated that the two men must appear in court to defend themselves and accept cross-examination by the prosecution if they have “clean reasons” to explain why they were fully equipped at the scene. The original judgment has been upheld.
On November 18, 2019, during PolyU’s “Siege of Wei and Rescue of Zhao”, 9 men and women participated in riots outside Diocesan Girls’ School in Jordan. Two men were convicted of rioting following interrogation and each was sentenced to 38 months in prison. They refused to accept Convicted to file an application for leave to appeal. The Court of Appeal issued a judgment today stating that if the two had “clean reasons” to explain why they were at the scene fully equipped, they should appear in court to defend themselves and accept cross-examination by the prosecution. The evidence and the analysis of the whole case were exhaustive, and there was nothing wrong with it. Therefore, the two men’s appeal applications were rejected and the original judgment was upheld.
Two applicants, Chen Ziqian (26 years old at the time of the incident) and Huang Shizhe (20 years old at the time of the incident), were charged with seven other people outside the Diocesan Girls’ School on Gascoigne Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong on November 18, 2019, together with other Unidentified individuals took part in the riot.
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/Local/PolyU Conflict-The appeal of two men involved in the riots in Jordan was rejected-the appeal court said that the original trial did not make mistakes/367808?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
The court of appeal has rejected the applications of two men who had appealed once morest their conviction and sentence for participating in riots outside the Diocesan Girls’ School in Jordan on November 18, 2019. The court stated that if the two men had “clean reasons” to explain why they were fully equipped at the scene, they should have appeared in court to defend themselves and accept cross-examination by the prosecution. The evidence and analysis of the whole case were exhaustive, and there was nothing wrong with it. The original judgment was upheld, and the two men were sentenced to 38 months in prison.
