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The judgement notes that on the afternoon of 1 July 2020 in Causeway Bay, the defendant participated in an unauthorised assembly with about 300 protesters, erecting roadblocks with bricks, metal barriers and traffic cones, and shouting slogans such as “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times”. After the police displayed blue flags as a warning, they commenced a dispersal and arrest operation. The defendant fled holding an umbrella and resisted violently when arrested, causing injury to an officer in the ensuing chaos. The incident was extensively recorded by public and closed-circuit television footage.
With reference to the riot offence under the Public Order Ordinance and the provisions on resisting police officers under the Offences against the Person Ordinance, and following the appellate court’s sentencing guidelines in related riot cases concerning factors such as scale, number of participants, use of weapons and ineffective warnings.
The defendant took the initiative to erect roadblocks and resisted lawful arrest; the riot involved over 300 people and lasted more than ten minutes, causing serious disruption to public order and road users; police officers suffered serious injuries during the arrests, warranting severe punishment to serve as a deterrent and uphold the rule of law.
Considering that the defendant was only 17 years old at the time of the incident, had no prior convictions, pleaded guilty with a good attitude, and had support for rehabilitation in the reformatory report, it is still necessary to balance punishment with education, giving equal weight to sentencing and corrective training.
The judge therefore combined the sentences on both charges and ordered that the defendant be sent to a reformatory for training. (Translated from Chinese to English by AI)
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