Tag: sedition
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Two Hong Kong journalists to be sentenced in sedition case criticized by U.S.
Two journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong are being sentenced Thursday after being convicted of sedition last month in a verdict seen as a further blow to press freedom in the Chinese territory. Chung Pui-kuen, the former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Stand News, and Patrick Lam, the newspaper’s former acting editor-in-chief, had been…