A Hong Kong court upheld the conviction of an American lawyer handed a jail term over a scuffle with a plainclothes cop, in a case that fueled international debate over police tactics in the city.
High Court Judge Esther Toh said she found “no merit at all in any of the grounds of appeal against conviction,” in a judgment on Tuesday. Toh added that the actions of the plainclothes police officer had to be understood within the context of the 2019 protests, when hostility toward law enforcement led off-duty officers to be issued batons.
Samuel Bickett arrives at the High Court in Hong Kong on Nov. 15, 2021.
Photographer: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images
Samuel Bickett, 37, was sentenced ...
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