A Hong Kong court has sentenced the last eight protesters who were charged with rioting near the Polytechnic University when it was under police siege in 2019. They were handed up to four-and-a-half years in jail, with a police officer in charge of the prosecution calling the case “unprecedented.” The PolyU campus siege in November 2019 saw intense clashes between police and protesters, with large groups of protesters also gathered in the vicinity in an effort to break through a police blockade. 213 people were arrested near Nathan Road in Yau Ma Tei on the night of November 18 and later charg…
