Hong Kong police officers jailed for beating protester

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TV cameras caught the officers removing Mr Tsang from the protest area to a nearby park and kicking and punching him as he lay on the ground.

Police in Hong Kong are generally well-respected and incidents of police violence are rare, though there were accusations of heavy-handedness during the protests.

The 2014 protests saw 79 days of student-led demonstrations and street occupations by protesters seeking freedom from mainland Chinese intervention in elections for the territory's leader.

Defence lawyer Lawrence Lok had argued that the protests had affected police morale, saying that one of the officers who watched the violence had been physically and verbally abused by protesters.

The "Vicious assault" had "Brought damage to Hong Kong in the international community", he said.

Hong Kong has been part of China since 1997 but enjoys a high degree of autonomy under a principle of "One country, two systems".

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