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Grandma Wong, fixture of Hong Kong protests, jailed for 8 months

Veteran activist Alexandra Wong, popularly known as "Grandma Wong", has been for eight months on charges of unlawful assembly [File: Peter Parks/AFP]

A Hong Kong court has found veteran activist Alexandra Wong, better known to the world as “Grandma Wong”, guilty of two counts of illegal assembly landing her back in jail for eight months.

The magistrate on Wednesday said Wong’s flag-waving was a symbol of encouragement that incited other protesters and cited the “scale and disruption” of the 2019 protests as part of his sentencing considerations.

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