HONG KONG -- A Hong Kong political activist was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in prison on a string of charges linked to pro-democracy street protests, as authorities make greater use of a colonial-era sedition law to stifle dissent.
The ruling comes after Hong Kong's district court last month found Tam Tak-chi, 50, guilty of uttering "seditious words," including now-outlawed protest chants, as well as holding an unauthorized assembly and disobeying police orders during demonstrations in 2020.
