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Hong Kong court finds Stand News editors guilty of sedition

Chung Pui-kuen leaves court following the verdict [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

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.

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