A Hong Kong court has sentenced the first two people under a tough new Hong Kong national security law, including a man who was given 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan.

A Hong Kong man on Monday pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person convicted under the city's new national security law passed in March.

A Hong Kong man was jailed on Friday (Sep 20) 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. Au Kin-wai, 58,

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a third person convicted of sedition under the domestic national security law to 14 months in prison, ruling he defied the nation’s sovereignty and instigated hatred towards officials with persistent calls for “dictators” Xi Jinping and John Lee Ka-chiu to step down.

While sedition has been an offense in Hong Kong since the British colonial period, it was rarely used until authorities revived it in the wake of massive protests in 2019 advocating democracy. After Beijing imposed a National Security Law on the territory in 2020 to quell the protests,

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. Au Kin-wai, 58, was sentenced to 14 months behind bars after he pleaded guilty to publishing 239 seditious posts