"The defendant intended to revive the original ideas of the massive and sometimes violent protests of 2019," the magistrate said. A journalist covering the protests in Hong Kong in 2019.Matthew Leung Lucas de la CalCorrespondent in Asia Chu Kai-pong,

Hong Kong’s new security law is “unambiguous” about what counts as unlawful seditious acts, the city’s government has said, after a man was sentenced to 14 months in jail in the first conviction under the legislation.

A Hong Kong man was jailed Friday for “seditious” posts on social media, becoming the third person to be imprisoned under a new national security law in the span of two days. Au Kin-wai, 58, was sentenced to 14 months behind bars after he pleaded guilty to publishing 239 seditious posts