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A Chinese court sentenced the former mayor of the central city of Wuhan to 14 years’ imprisonment on Saturday after he was found guilty of accepting bribes in business deals. Zhou Xianwang, whose tenure as mayor of Hubei’s provincial capital coincided with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pa
A Hong Kong court has sentenced a university student to seven years in prison for raping and sexually assaulting five women, with most of the offences taking place during orientation camps. The 31-year-old defendant was sentenced on Friday at the High Court after the jury found him guilty of one cou
A construction worker has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a man who confronted him about smoking while they were waiting for a lift at a private housing estate in Hong Kong. A High Court jury on Tuesday found Tam Yun-chiu, 52, guilty of killing Ho Lok-man after hearing that he repeate
On his 29th birthday, Hong Kong bartender Tang Lung-wai boarded a flight to the Philippines for a holiday that would change his life. He ended up spending 26 years in jail in the country. Now 55, Tang spent years fighting his drug-related charges, insisting that he had been framed. But he told the S
A Hong Kong man imprisoned in the Philippines for 26 years while fighting against convictions for drug possession has been released and returned home on Tuesday night. Tang Lung-wai, 55, was greeted by his elder brother, Billy Tang Lung-piu, as he arrived from Manila at the Hong Kong International A
Government prosecutors have lodged an appeal for heavier sentences for four people involved in an attack on a prisoner, including a guard who wounded the inmate by thrusting a stick into his rectum. Local media reported on Wednesday that the Department of Justice had filed an appeal against the sent
A former pro-democracy district councillor has become the latest among those jailed in the landmark “Hong Kong 47” national security case to be released from prison, after spending five years and seven months behind bars for conspiracy to subvert state power. Ng Kin-wai, an ex-local coun
The Correctional Services Department (CSD) has said it does not discuss prison security or “specific arrangements” for persons in custody, after a US-based advocacy group said prison guards had rehearsed protocols in the event of jailed activist Jimmy Lai’s death. In a statement se
Hong Kong authorities have appointed a five-member supervisory committee to investigate the conviction of a district councillor for having sex with a 13-year-old girl 15 years ago. Yuen Long district councillor Sei Chun-hing, 39, is the first elected officeholder to face possible imprisonment for a
There is no “red line” set for approving public assemblies, Hong Kong’s police chief has said, while warning that national security risks persisted despite the landmark conviction and imprisonment of organisers behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil for inciting subversion. The Hong Kong go
Three activists who once organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown crackdown have been sentenced up to seven years and three months in prison. Appearing before a panel of designated judges at the West Kowloon Law Courts Building on Friday, Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan, and Albert
Hong Kong’s District Court has sentenced two men with autism to up to three years and two months in prison for their involvement in a pro-independence group seeking to separate the city from Chinese sovereignty. District Judge Ernest Lin Kam-hung on Thursday found that courier Chan Tai-sum, 27, and
A Hong Kong man has been returned to a Philippine prison in what his legal team condemned as “illegal detention”, after severe weather halted his deportation following his release. Tang Lung-wai’s Philippine lawyer, Blessie Rose Carpena, told the South China Morning Post that prison authorities esco
A moving services manager has been sentenced to 3½ years in prison for molesting his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter at home and filming and photographing the assaults, with a Hong Kong judge imposing a heavier penalty to reflect the impact on the vulnerable child. Deputy District Judge Ivy Chui Y