A Hong Kong court sentenced a man to 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with protest slogans, marking the city’s first use of a new national security law to punish people accused of endangering the Chinese state.

A Hong Kong man convicted for wearing a "seditious" T-shirt last year was sentenced to 14 months in jail under the city's new security law that continues to crack down on supporters of anti-government demonstrations.

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a third person convicted of sedition under the domestic national security law to 14 months in prison, ruling he defied the nation’s sovereignty and instigated hatred towards officials with persistent calls for “dictators” Xi Jinping and John Lee Ka-chiu to step down.

While sedition has been an offense in Hong Kong since the British colonial period, it was rarely used until authorities revived it in the wake of massive protests in 2019 advocating democracy. After Beijing imposed a National Security Law on the territory in 2020 to quell the protests,

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