Hong Kong Jails Third Person For Sedition
First people are sentenced under Hong Kong’s tough new security law
A Hong Kong court sentenced the first two people under a tough new Hong Kong national security law on Thursday, including a man who was given 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan.
Hong Kong judge urges ‘severe’ sedition penalties, jails 2 in first Article 23 law sentences
Hong Kong’s top magistrate has called for “severe” penalties for offenders who commit sedition by fostering hatred towards the authorities, as he jailed two men for up to 14 months for displaying anti-government slogans in the first sentences passed under the domestic national security law.
Two Hong Kong men jailed for seditious acts under new security law
A Hong Kong judge on Thursday jailed two men in the city's first sedition cases under a new national security law - one for wearing a shirt with a protest slogan and another for writing similar messages on bus seats.
Hong Kong Man Jailed for T-Shirt Protest Slogan
Chu pleaded guilty plea to having seditiously worn a T-shirt with the protest slogan "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times". The message - chanted on streets during the months of pro-democracy protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019 - had been deemed capable of inciting secession in a separate national security case.
Hong Kong Jails Third Person For Sedition Under New Law
A Hong Kong man was jailed Friday for "seditious" posts on social media, becoming the third person to be imprisoned under a new national security law in the span of two days.
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