member of the Legislative Council 2019–20 Hong Kong protests Albert Ho continued to support the pro-democracy movement, and took part in the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests. On 18 April 2020, Ho was one of 15 Hong Kong high-profile democracy figures arrested on suspicion of organizing, publicizing or taking part in several unauthorized assemblies between August and October 2019 in the course of the anti-extradition bill protests. In May 2021, he was sentenced to two jail terms of 18 months each, to be served concurrently, for inciting and organizing a banned protest on China's National Day on 1 October 2019. Ho was attacked by a group of men armed with metal rods at around 7pm on 19 September 2019 as he exited Tin Hau MTR station. He was followed by a black-clad group and beaten. Soon thereafter, several politicians from the pro-democracy camp – notably Roy Kwong, Stanley Ho Wai-hang of the Labour Party and Leung Kai-Qing were also attacked in the street. The involvement of organised crime was suspected by the Hong Kong Police Force. Imposition of HK national security legislation Soon after the June 2020 imposition of the Hong Kong national security law by the PRC Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Ho told The Daily Telegraph'' that he feared that "people like him" may face "difficulties in the times to come" as global banks like Credit Suisse, HSBC, Julius Baer and UBS were in the process of "broadening scrutiny" to "screen clients for political and government ties" and subjecting pro-democrats to "additional diligence requirements". Said Ho: "There’s not much you can do, actually, unless you cease all your financial and banking activities in Hong Kong." Resignation from civic groups and sentencing In September 2021, Ho resigned from his leadership positions within the Hong Kong Alliance, the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, and the New School for Democracy. The Alliance had come under heavy attack by authorities at that time, with two national security investigations underway against it and its lead members; earlier that month, before his resignations, Ho had pleaded guilty to taking part in or inciting others to participate in the 2020 Tiananmen Massacre vigil. Ho said in court, to applauding spectators, that he and eleven others who pleaded guilty for the same offence were "on the right side of history". Ho was sentenced on 15 September 2021 to a total of 10 months