Landmark Sedition Verdict: Hong Kong Court Sentences Two Journalists
29 Aug 2024 14:49 PM IST
In December 2021, Chung Pui-kuen, the former editor-in-chief of Stand News, and Patrick Lam, the former acting editor-in-chief, were arrested. They faced charges of conspiring to publish and reproduce seditious materials, which marked Hong Kong’s first sedition trial involving the media since the city's return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.