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Two charged amid international outcry over raid on Hong Kong media outlet 2021.12.30 Authorities in Hong Kong on Thursday charged two senior editors at the now-shuttered pro-democracy Stand News with "sedition" and denied them bail, following a raid on the news website by national security police. Acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam and former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen, and the company that owns the media outlet were charged with conspiring "together and with other persons, to publish and/or reproduce seditious publications," court documents showed. They also stand accused of inciting "hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection" against the government and the incitement...
