Hong Kong jails independence leader Edward Leung for six years

Leung was convicted over his role in protests in 2016 dubbed the ‘fishball revolution’

Hong Kong’s leading independence activist has been jailed for six years for his involvement in some of the city’s worst protest violence for decades.

Edward Leung was convicted in May of rioting over the 2016 running battles with police, when demonstrators hurled bricks torn up from pavements and set rubbish alight in the commercial district of Mong Kok.

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