Hong Kong student sentenced to more than 2 years in jail for rioting on night of Tiananmen Square crackdown vigil | South China Morning Post

A Hong Kong student has been sentenced to more than two years in jail for rioting during the chaos of last year's banned candlelight vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Tsang King-lun pleaded guilty at the District Court on Wednesday to rioting in Mong Kok on the night of June 4, 2020, when the 22-year-old was among a group of about 50 protesters involved in a stand-off with police on Argyle Street. People had earlier gathered peacefully outside Langham Place shopping centre to hold candles or wave flashlights to mark the crackdown anniversary. The court heard that tensions started…