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_Published 2024-08-29. A Hong Kong court found two former editors guilty for publishing articles about pro-democracy activists that were deemed seditious, convicting journalists of sedition charges for the first time in decades and deepening press freedom concerns._


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## Transcript

When the National Security Department took the enforcement against the Stan news on December and 22 21. Some people criticize us that we are suppressing the freedom of the speech and the press. But today's the judge verdict have clearly illustrated that the necessity and the lawfulness of the enforcement taking on that day. Nobody told us that you may get arrest or prosecuted if you did any interviews or write anything, but now the situation is changed. Okay, we accept it. We accept that the pical situation is changed and the social atmosphere is changed. Never mind, but I think that for the sentencing, that this would have more consideration.

What I'm most concerned is the accused articles say that they were seditious And the same content articles, blogs, and interviews also existed in other media. So is it any further legal action against them, or is all end? It starts from SA News and will be ended in Apple Daily. Is it all over?

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