Criticising laws or chanting anti-government slogans can be enough to jail someone for sedition in Hong Kong, an appeal court has ruled in a landmark case brought under a colonial-era law increasingly used to crush dissent. Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal upheld a 40-month sentence for pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi, the first person to be […]
Prominent activist and publisher Jimmy Lai has pleaded not guilty to three charges of sedition and collusion with foreign countries in a landmark national security trial in Hong Kong. Lai, a media tycoon who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, faces one count of conspiring to print seditious publications to incite hatred against the Chinese […]
A Hong Kong court has rejected a bid by prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai to throw out a sedition charge against him. The ruling came on the third day of his landmark national security trial. Lai, 76, was arrested during the city’s crackdown on dissidents following huge pro-democracy protests in 2019. He faces possible life […]