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Suzanne Sataline

US lawyer back in Hong Kong jail over police assault

Samuel Bickett, a former corporate lawyer, has been sent back to prison after a Hong Kong court dismissed his appeal against his conviction for assaulting a police officer [File: Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

An American corporate lawyer, convicted last July of striking a plainclothes police officer during the 2019 Hong Kong protests, is back in prison after his appeal was dismissed.

High Court Judge Esther Toh on Tuesday agreed with a lower court’s decision to convict Samuel Bickett, a former compliance lawyer with Bank of America in China.

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