Jolovan Wham Kwok Han, a 42-year-old activist, was convicted back in January this year for an unlawful assembly at the main entrance of the former State Courts building on 13 December 2018 at around 9am.
The State Courts is a Prohibited Area under the Public Order Act, with strict security protocols in place.
His appeal was dismissed by the High Court and he chose to serve 15-day imprisonment in lieu of paying a $3,000 fine on Friday.
Recap
Jolovan Wham was attending a court hearing in 13 December 2018 for a criminal defamation case involving Terry Xu, the editor of The Online Citizen (TOC) and De Costa Agustin, a contributor of TOC.
Wham stood on the steps outside the building, holding on to a piece of paper with the worlds “Drop the charges against Terry Xu and Daniel De Costa” on it.
CCTV footage was showed in the courtroom showing Wham holding up the sign for about 15 seconds while being photographed.
Two passers-by was also passing by at the time while he was holding the sign but didn’t pay attention to it.
Wham then kept the sign in his bag and entered the building; he then posted a public photo of it on his social media accounts.
The photo was then reposted onto a forum on HardwareZone by a netizen and a police report was then anonymously made by a member of the public, against the post.