Former Hong Kong lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting has been found guilty of rioting during the 2019 Yuen Long attack, where he says he helped protesters and was attacked by a white-shirted mob. Lam is a member of the Hong Kong 47, democracy activists who were charged with subversion under the city's national security law.
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00:00A Hong Kong court has convicted an ex-democratic lawmaker and six others for rioting during
00:06the city's 2019 pro-democracy protests.
00:10In July of that year, about a hundred white-shirted men assaulted passengers and journalists in
00:15a Hong Kong metro station.
00:17Lam Cheuk-ting, a member of the city's disbanded Democratic Party, says he arrived at the scene
00:22to help and was attacked by the mob.
00:25He was arrested 13 months later for rioting and instigating violence.
00:30Lam is part of the so-called Hong Kong 47, a group of pro-democracy advocates charged
00:36with conspiracy to commit subversion under the city's Beijing-backed national security
00:41law.