Man jailed for 14 months in Hong Kong’s third sedition conviction under security law

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a third person convicted of sedition under the domestic national security law to 14 months in prison, ruling he defied the nation’s sovereignty and instigated hatred towards officials with persistent calls for “dictators” Xi Jinping and John Lee Ka-chiu to step down.

The court heard the jobless defendant posted 239 largely repetitive videos and images featuring anti-government slogans on three social media platforms between March 23 and June 19 this year.

The slogans included statements suggesting peace would return to Hong Kong, Taiwan and the world if Chief Executive Lee, President Xi and the Communist Party gave up their powers. Au called the party an “evil fascist regime” and a “metonym for lies”, citing its founder Mao Zedong in saying: “Revolution is no crime, to rebel is justified.”