Hong Kong 47: ex-lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting and 2 others lodge appeals

Former Hong Kong lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting and two other opposition activists jailed in the city’s biggest national security trial have lodged appeals against their convictions and sentences, bringing the total of such applications to eight.

The High Court on Thursday released a document showing the appeals were lodged the day before by Lam, activist Gordon Ng Ching-hang and former district councillor Michael Pang Cheuk-kei. A date for the hearing at the Court of Appeal has not yet been scheduled, according to the judiciary.

Last month, three judges hand-picked to hear national security cases jailed 45 opposition figures for between four years and two months and 10 years over their roles in a plot to overthrow the government in 2020.

They were from a group of 47 accused of conspiring to subvert state power through an unofficial legislative “primary” election aimed at winning control of the legislature.

Sixteen contested the charge while the rest entered a guilty plea. The court acquitted two of them.

So far, eight of the 14 convicted after trial have filed appeals against their convictions and sentences.