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Former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen sentenced to 21 months in jail under colonial-era law, while his colleague Patrick Lam gets 11 months.

A Hong Kong judge has sentenced a former editor of Stand News, the now-closed pro-democracy news outlet, to 21 months in prison in a landmark case amid a security crackdown in the China-ruled city.

Former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen, 55, was sentenced on Thursday alongside his colleague, former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam, 36, who was given an 11 month sentence because of poor health. Lam was freed, however, because of the time had spent in custody on remand.

The pair are the first journalists to be jailed under a colonial-era sedition law since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

The Chinese-language news outlet, one of the last in Hong Kong that criticised authorities as China imposed a crackdown following mass pro-democracy protests in 2019, was raided and shut down in December 2021.

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