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Bangkok — A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted two independent journalists of sedition for coverage of the island state’s pro-democracy demonstrations of 2019. The sedition trial is the first that has focused on journalists and editors since Hong Kong’s handover to China from Britain in 1997. The former editor-in-chief of Stand News, Chung Pui-Kuen, and the former acting-editor-in-chief, Patrick Lam, were found guilty of conspiracy to publish and reproduce seditious information, Judge Kwok Wai Kin announced Thursday afternoon. Читать дальше...

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This is the first sedition case against journalists in Hong Kong since the territory's handover in 1997.

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1. Hong Kong court convicts former Stand News editors of sedition  Reuters
2. Hong Kong Editors Convicted of Sedition in Blow to Press Freedom  The New York Times
3. Hong Kong prepares for Stand News verdict in latest media freedom test  Al Jazeera English
4. Hong Kong journalists found guilty of sedition in case critics say highlights decline in press freedom  CNN

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