Four HKU students jailed two years each for inciting attack on police; judge condemns abuse of power and public office
涉致謝梁健輝4港大生認煽惑傷警 各判囚兩年 官斥公器私用、濫用權力
The then chairman of the University of Hong Kong Students’ Union Council, Kinson Cheung King-sang, the Students’ Union president, Charles Kwok Wing-ho, and two councillors, Chris Todorovski and Anthony Yung Chung-hei, were charged under the National Security Law with “advocating terrorism” over a motion they moved or supported at a council meeting in 2021 concerning Leung Kin-fai, the suspect in the July 1 police stabbing case. The four pleaded guilty before trial to the alternative charge of “inciting another to wound with intent” and were each sentenced to two years in prison on Monday (30th). District Court judge Adriana Noelle Tse Ching said the motion was read out by Cheung, who invited Kwok to speak; Kwok and To Lam were respectively the mover and seconder, while Yung spoke on the motion. The judge said the four had acted jointly and described their conduct as “an abuse of power and using public office for private ends”, saying it had “caused social divisions and revived hostility towards the police”. The judge also cited Kwok’s mitigation letter, which said members of the public were dissatisfied with, and even hated and resented, police officers because of “police violence, abuse of power and selective enforcement”. Kwok said he could not deny having similar sentiments at the time, and that he could not “against my conscience say that the police were completely free from making arbitrary arrests and abusing their power, with all responsibility lying with the protesters”. The judge questioned Kwok’s remorse but stressed that this would not affect his sentence.
香港大學學生會評議會時任主席張敬生、學生會會長郭永皓，以及 2 名評議員杜林丞亨和容頌禧，被指於 2021 年評議會會議上，動議及支持七一刺警案疑兇梁健輝的議案，被控《國安法》「宣揚恐怖主義」罪。 4 人開審前承認交替控罪「煽惑他人有意圖而傷人」，周一（30 日）各被判囚兩年。區院法官謝沈智慧指，議案由張讀出，並邀請郭發言；而郭和杜林分別為議案的動議人及和議人，容則有發言，指 4 人共同犯案，屬「濫用權力、公器私用」，「令社會撕裂和仇警重現」。 法官另引述郭在求情信稱，市民因「警察濫暴濫權、選擇性執法而不滿，甚至痛恨及仇視警員」，又稱不能否認自己當時亦有類似情緒，而自己亦「無法違心地說，警察完全沒有濫捕濫權，責任存（全）在示威者一方。」官指，質疑郭的悔意，但強調不會影響其判刑。