The Electoral Affairs Commission members opening the ballot box at a vote counting centre in Hong Kong on Dec 19, 2021. - Reuters
HONG KONG, April 19, 2022 (AFP): A man and a woman on Tuesday became the first Hong Kongers convicted for supporting a local election boycott in online posts, the latest court verdict to shrink political freedoms in the business hub.
Salesman Chan Kin-man, 36, and office assistant Alice Leung, 65, were both sentenced to two months in jail with 18 months of suspension respectively by a magistrate in Hong Kong after pleading guilty to "inciting others" not to vote, or to cast invalid vote.
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