A Hong Kong appellate court has sentenced former lawmaker Au Nok-hin to nine weeks in prison after overturning a noncustodial sentence he was given for assaulting police during an anti-government protest in 2019, according to local media.Au, a doctoral student at the University of Tokyo who was arrested in January upon returning to Hong Kong, had been slapped with a 140-hour community service order by a lower court in April last year for his role in confronting police officers with a loudspeaker during the July 2019 protest.In handing down the prison sentence on Tuesday, the Court of Appeal…READ FULL ARTICLE
