Hong Kong's Stand News editors and owner convicted of sedition

Human rights groups condemn verdict under 1938 law as latest hit to press freedom

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Chung Pui-kuen, former chief editor of the now-shuttered Stand News, leaves the district court on bail on Aug. 29 after being convicted of sedition, along with another editor and the publication's owner. © Reuters

KENJI KAWASE and PEGGY YE, Nikkei staff writers

HONG KONG -- A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted two former senior editors and the owner of the folded pro-democratic online news outlet Stand News.

Former Editor-in-Chief Chung Pui-kuen and acting chief editor Patrick Lam, along with the publication's owner, Best Pencil (Hong Kong), had been charged under a colonial-era law with publishing "seditious material."

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