Hong Kong: Stand News editors found guilty in landmark sedition case

This is the first sedition case against journalists in Hong Kong since the territory's handover in 1997.

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Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, two editors at the now-defunct Stand News media outlet, could now face a maximum jail term of two years.

This is the first sedition case against journalists in Hong Kong since the territory's handover from Britain to China in 1997.

Rights groups have condemned the verdict, with Reporters without Borders calling on Hong Kong to "stop its nefarious campaign against press freedom".

In a written statement, district court judge Kwok Wai-kin said that Stand News had become a "danger to national security".

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