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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang

Five Hong Kong teenagers sentenced in first security case involving minors

FILE PHOTO: Chinese and Hong Kong flags, decorating a street, hang in the rain, before the 25th anniversary of the former British colony's handover to Chinese rule, in Hong Kong, China June 30, 2022. REUTERS/Paul Yeung

Five teenagers with a Hong Kong group advocating independence from Chinese rule were ordered by a judge on Saturday to serve up to three years in detention at a correctional facility, for urging an "armed revolution" in a national security case.

The five, some of whom were minors aged between 15 and 18 at the time of the alleged offence, had pleaded guilty to "inciting others to subvert state power" through a group named "Returning Valiant".

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