Two former editors of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Stand News, Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, were convicted of sedition, marking a significant moment for press freedom in the region. They were charged under a colonial-era law revived amid a crackdown on dissent post-2019 protests. Prosecutors cited 17 articles from July 2020 to December 2021 as seditious, with a judge ruling 11 had “seditious intentions.” The trial, which began in October 2022, had been delayed three times.