A social worker who tried to mediate during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong is convicted of rioting

A social worker who tried to mediate during the peak of Hong Kong's mass anti-government protests in 2019 has been convicted of rioting at a retrial. Jackie Chen shouted to her supporters that she would be OK after the judge's decision was announced Tuesday. The prosecution accused Chen, who used a loudspeaker to ask police officers to calm down and not to use their guns to fire non-lethal bullets, of participating in a riot during a protest in August 2019. She was acquitted at her first trial but the government appealed. Chen is expected to be sentenced in April with a cap at the district court of seven years.