Hong Kong Journalist Sentenced to 21-Month Prison Term in Landmark Sedition Case

Published on September 26, 2024

The former editor of a Hong Kong news outlet was sentenced to 21 months in prison on Thursday in a landmark case that was widely seen as a sign of deteriorating media freedoms amid a years-long clampdown by China’s communist regime. Chung Pui-kuen, former editor-in-chief of the now-shuttered pro-democracy Stand News, was convicted along with his colleague, Patrick Lam, of publishing “seditious” articles under a law dating back to the time when the city was a British colony. Lam also received an 11-month prison term, but due to his poor health and the time he had already spent in custody, he was immediately released....

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