An online news reporter has been jailed for three months after pleading guilty to insulting China’s national anthem by waving the British Hong Kong flag at a mall screening of the Olympic gold medal ceremony for local fencer Edgar Cheung Ka-long last year.
Kwun Tong Court on Thursday recorded the first conviction under the National Anthem Ordinance, which criminalises insults to “March of the Volunteers”. Critics have said the legislation, which came into force in June 2020, is a curb on freedom of expression.
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