Hong Kong journalists go on trial for ‘sedition’

Major repercussions: Filepic of Lam (left) being escorted by police officers into a van after they searched for evidence at his office in Hong Kong on Dec 29, 2021. — AP

HONG KONG: Two former chief editors of a now-shuttered media outlet in Hong Kong went on trial for publishing “seditious” content, the latest prosecution of journalists in the business hub.

Sedition, a once little-used hangover from the British colonial period, has been embraced by prosecutors alongside a new national security law as China cracks down on dissent after democracy protests three years ago.