A Hong Kong court found two former news editors guilty on Thursday of publishing seditious content on a shuttered pro-democracy media site, a ruling rights groups said was a further blow to press freedoms in the city as Beijing tightens its grip.
Chung Pui-kuen, former editor-in-chief of Stand News, and Patrick Lam Shiu-tung, the publication’s ex-acting editor, had been charged under a colonial-era law that has been increasingly used to target dissent following a wave of anti-government protests in 2019. It was the first sedition case targeting journalists in Hong Kong since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
Lawyers defending Chung and Lam argued that those 17 stories were part of a much broader news file, which included interviews with pro-government voices, and that the news organization had dedicated itself to carrying out balanced journalism. Chung and Lam were found guilty on charges stemming from a colonial-era crimes ordinance, but the police involved with the case were national security officers.
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