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KEY COURT DATES

This is a summary of the key upcoming and past court dates. While we are doing our best to obtain the following information from open-source data and publicly available information, this page is not the official roster of court dates, and it is possible that there may be some accidental omissions and/or errors.

2021 JULY


30 JULY

High Court - Sentence, 3:00pm HKT, Open Court

  • Tong Ying-kit

    Update: Nine years imprisonment

    Tong was sentenced to six and a half years for the incitement to secession charge and eight years for committing acts of terror. Taking the totality principle into account, the court said Tong is to serve two and half years of his sentence for the terrorism offence consecutively with the 6.5-year prison term for the National Security charge so the total is nine years.


29 JULY

High Court - Mitigation, 10:00am HKT, Open Court

  • Tong Ying-kit

    Tong Ying-kit was charged with incitement with secession under the National Security Law. The case will be heard by national security judges and no jury.

District Court - Hearing, 10:00am HKT, Open Court

  • Tam Tak-chi

    Tam Tak-chi was charged with incitement to knowingly participating in an unauthorized assembly, holding or convening an unauthorized assembly and uttering seditious words in January and between March and July in 2020.


27 JULY

High Court

  • Jimmy Lai Chee-ying

    Jimmy Lai was charged with 1) collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security, 2) conspiracy to commit collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security; and 3) conspiracy to do an act or a series of acts tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice.


8 JULY

High Court

  • 47 pro-democracy politicians and activists

They were charged with conspiracy to commit subversion under the National Security Law for their organisation and participation in a primary election in July 2020.


7 JULY

West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts - Return Day, 2:30pm HKT

  • Andy Li Yu-hin

Andy Li was charged with 1) conspiracy to commit collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security, 2) conspiracy to assist offender and 3) possession of ammunition without a licence.