Prominent Hong Kong dissident Joshua Wong announced he and two other leading activists will plead guilty at the opening of a trial over their involvement in last year’s protests on Monday, adding he expects to be jailed.
Beijing and local authorities have refused demands for free elections and have responded with a growing crackdown against democracy supporters.
Wong, is being prosecuted alongside Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow — two other well-known dissidents — over a protest which took place last summer outside the city police’s headquarters.
Police became a target for demonstrators after tear gas and rubber bullets were routinely used to clear crowds when rallies kicked off last June.
The force’s headquarters was besieged on multiple occasions with crowds hurling eggs and daubing its walls with graffiti.
Prosecutors charged Wong, Lam and Chow with leading, inciting and joining one of the protests outside the station.
Chow had already said she planned to plead guilty, a tactic which can lead to a lighter sentence. Wong and Lam had originally vowed to fight the charges.
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