Activist Tong Ying-kit jailed for nine years in Hong Kong's first national security trial

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A Hong Kong waiter was jailed for nine years on Friday after he became the first person convicted under a sweeping new national security law that Beijing imposed on the city to stamp out dissent.

Tong Ying-kit, 24, on Tuesday was found guilty of terrorism for driving a motorbike into three police officers, and secession for flying a protest flag during a rally on July 1 last year, the day after the security law was enacted.

The flag Tong flew read"Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times", a ubiquitous chant during the huge and often violent pro-democracy protests two years ago. Those judges ruled that Tong driving his bike into police met the bar for terrorism while the flag he flew was capable of"inciting secession".

The trial has profound implications for future national security cases, which can carry up to life in jail.

 

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Great. He deserve that.

Take a look Australia. We’re next.

Riding a motor bike at full speed into a line of police. A terrorist action in any nation on earth. Lucky it was only 9 years. It's be more on Australia. Move on...

9 years! Gosh and we all whinge and freak out because some folks are going to be walking around in their work uniforms this weekend

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