
A Hong Kong court has found two former chief editors of the now-defunct independent news outlet Stand News guilty of sedition in a landmark case that has taken place amid a security crackdown in the China-ruled city.
District Court judge Kwok Wai-kin announced the verdict on Thursday, declaring former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam guilty of conspiring to publish seditious publications. He said 11 of 17 articles that the prosecution presented as evidence were seditious under the colonial-era sedition law.