Lui Sai-yu pleaded guilty in April 2022 and admitted that content on a Telegram channel he administered incited others to separate Hong Kong from China or alter the legal status of the city unlawfully.
But his timely guilty plea did not get him a one-third reduction in the length of his imprisonment – like in many other cases under Hong Kong’s common law system – because the security law imposed minimum jail terms for serious offenses.
Hong Kong court upholds minimum sentences for breaching security law
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