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Hong Kong journalists found guilty in landmark sedition case
Two journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong have been found guilty of sedition.
Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, two editors at the now-defunct Stand News media outlet, could now face a maximum jail term of two years.
This is the first sedition case against journalists in Hong Kong since the territory's handover from Britain to China in 1997.
Their newspaper's editorial line supported "Hong Kong local autonomy", according to the district court judge who found the pair guilty.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gq75qwve8o
Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, two editors at the now-defunct Stand News media outlet, could now face a maximum jail term of two years.
This is the first sedition case against journalists in Hong Kong since the territory's handover from Britain to China in 1997.
Their newspaper's editorial line supported "Hong Kong local autonomy", according to the district court judge who found the pair guilty.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gq75qwve8o
Hong Kong is now just another section of China, as authoritarian as all of it.