'HK independence' kingpin gets 6 years for Mong Kok riot

Local "independence" activist leader Edward Leung Tinkei, 27, was sentenced to six years in prison by Hong Kong's High Court on Monday for rioting and assaulting police during the Mong Kok riot in 2016.

Leung's co-defendant Lo Kin-man, 31, received seven years for rioting. Lo's sentence is the harshest handed down yet in connection with the violence that erupted on Feb 8 and 9, 2016.

It is also the stiffest sentence for rioting in the city's history.