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Hong Kong protests: teacher controversially remanded to psychiatric hospital gets nine weeks’ jail for kicking officer




A primary schoolteacher has been jailed for nine weeks for kicking a police officer during last year’s anti-government protests, with the sentence handed down by the same magistrate who sparked a controversy by sending him to a psychiatric hospital three months ago.Yeung Pok-man will not serve his sentence immediately, however, after being granted a temporary release pending an appeal.Fanling Court on Tuesday heard that Yeung, the first schoolteacher to be convicted over the demonstrations…



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