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Stand News: Hong Kong jails journalists for sedition

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Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam found guilty in landmark sedition case in Hong Kong .

Editors at now-defunct Stand News published articles about crackdown on civil liberties in China .

First case against journalists since handover from Britain to China in 1997 .

Hong Kong judiciary has become "a political tool, used to threaten those who dare to speak independently".

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English

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