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Taylor Odisho

Chinese Man Becomes First to Be Imprisoned Under New Anti-Sedition Law. His Crime Was Wearing a T-Shirt

Police run past debris set alight by protesters in the Causeway Bay area of Hong Kong on August 31, 2019. (Credit: Anthony Wallace/AFP)

A man was sentenced to more than a year in prison for wearing a shirt the Hong Kong government deems a danger to national security under its new anti-sedition law.

On the fifth anniversary of the anti-government protests in 2019, Chu Kai-pong, 27, wore a shirt bearing the protest's slogan, "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times," according to the Associated Press. He also donned a mask that read "FDNOL," an abbreviation for another protest slogan, "Five demands, not one less."

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