Hong Kong: Stand News journalists given jail terms for ‘sedition’
by Helen Davidson from World news | The Guardian on (#6R183)
Chung Pui-kuen sentenced to 21 months while Patrick Lam gets 11-month term but is released on medical grounds
The former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong's Stand News has been sentenced to jail on sedition charges for the publication of news reports and other articles that prosecutors said tried to promote illegal ideologies".
Chung Pui-kuen, 55, the former editor-in-chief and the former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam, 36, were found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious materials in late August after almost a year of delays. The parent company of the now-defunct Stand News, Best Pencil Ltd, was also convicted.
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