A Hong Kong court has handed down a one-year prison sentence to a Falun Gong practitioner under the city’s 2024 national security law, accusing him of criticizing the Chinese communist regime and its forced organ harvesting on social media.
The city’s West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts announced the sentencing of Chong Wai-man, 61, on April 14. He was found guilty of knowingly publishing publications with “seditious intention,” an offense under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, locally known as Article 23.
The ordinance was built upon similar legislation imposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the city in 2020, following mass protests advocating greater democracy. It targets political crimes such as treason, insurrection, and sabotage. While Hong Kong and Beijing said the move was necessary for stability, critics have said it cemented the communist regime’s efforts to turn the former British colony into another mainland Chinese city….
Hong Kong Sentences Falun Gong Practitioner to Prison Under National Security Law
