{"id":66964,"date":"2024-09-26T22:44:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T13:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/hong-kong-stand-news-journalists-given-jail-terms-for-sedition"},"modified":"2024-09-26T22:44:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T13:44:39","slug":"hong-kong-stand-news-journalists-given-jail-terms-for-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66964","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Stand News journalists given jail terms for \u2018sedition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chung Pui-kuen sentenced to 21 months while Patrick Lam gets 11-month term but is released on medical grounds<\/p>\n<p>The former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong\u2019s Stand News has been sentenced to jail on sedition charges for the publication of news reports and other articles that prosecutors said tried to promote \u201cillegal ideologies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chung Pui-kuen, 55, the former editor-in-chief and the former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam, 36, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/two-stand-news-journalists-hong-kong-guilty-sedition\">found guilty <\/a>of conspiring to publish seditious materials in late August after almost a year of delays. The parent company of the now-defunct Stand News, Best Pencil Ltd, was also convicted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/hong-kong-stand-news-journalists-given-jail-terms-for-sedition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chung Pui-kuen sentenced to 21 months while Patrick Lam gets 11-month term but is released on medical groundsThe former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong\u2019s Stand News has been sentenced to jail on sedition charges for the publication of news reports and oth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,669,671,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-journalist-safety","category-newspapers","category-press-freedom","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66965,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66964\/revisions\/66965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}