Tong Ying-kit, 24, was accused of driving his motorcycle into three riot police last year while carrying a flag with the protest slogan 'Liberate Hong Kong. Revolution of our times.'
HONG KONG -The first person convicted under Hong Kong's national security law was jailed for nine years on Friday for terrorist activities and inciting secession, judges said, in a watershed ruling with long-term implications for the city's judicial landscape.
Judges Esther Toh, Anthea Pang and Wilson Chan - picked by city leader Carrie Lam to hear national security cases - ruled on Tuesday that the slogan was "capable of inciting others to commit secession". Amnesty International's Yamini Mishra said in a statement the sentencing showed the security law "is not merely a tool to instil terror into government critics in Hong Kong; it is a weapon that will be used to incarcerate them."Prominent exiled Hong Kong activist Nathan Law said the lengthy sentence was "outrageous".
Hong Kong and China have repeatedly said that all the rights and freedoms promised to the former British colony upon its return to Chinese rule in 1997 were intact, but that national security was a red line. All cases have been handled in accordance with the law, both governments have said.
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