Seven veteran democrats have been allowed to appeal their convictions over a protest in 2019 at the city’s top court. Veteran democrat Martin Lee and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, along with ex-lawmakers Lee Cheuk-yan, Margaret Ng, Leung Kwok-hung, Cyd Ho, and Albert Ho, will have their challenge heard at the Court of Final Appeal on June 24. The top court, meanwhile, denied the Department of Justice’s application to overturn the democrats’ acquittal over organising the same assembly on August 18, 2019, ruling that the fact that the defendants had marched and held a banner at the head of the process…