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    With a Hong Kong court as his pulpit, pastor and convicted Occupy leader preaches democracy

    by Alice Su, Los Angeles Times Apr 10, 2019 5 minutes

    HONG KONG - In a Hong Kong court Tuesday afternoon, barristers in black robes and curly white wigs spoke for hours in British-accented English on legal precedence in cases of public nuisance.

    Then the oldest man in the room stood up.

    The Rev. Chu Yiu-ming, 75, white-haired in a dark suit, gave his final submission to the court in Cantonese, preaching from behind a glass barrier in the defendants' dock.

    "Today, old and gray, I find myself in the defendants' dock, making a final plea as a convict. It looks so absurd," Chu said. "Yet my heart tells me that I have found the most honorable pulpit of my ministerial career."

    Chu and eight other leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Umbrella Movement of 2014 had just been convicted of conspiracy, incitement and "incitement to incite" public nuisance.

    They could be sentenced

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