Hong Kong national security law: Four ex-members of defunct student activist group face up to 10 years in jail

Four members of a now-dissolved student activist group in Hong Kong are facing up to 10 years in jail after they admitted advocating for the city’s “liberation” and continued resistance against authorities, acts deemed in violation of the national security law.

The quartet from Student Politicism pleaded guilty on Friday before a district judge, who was among a few jurists approved by the previous administration to oversee national security cases, to a joint count of conspiracy to incite subversion of state power.