Hong Kong Student Jailed for 5 Years Under National Security Law

Hong Kong Student Jailed for 5 Years Under National Security Law
Protesters chant slogans and gesture during a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
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HONG KONG—A Hong Kong court on Friday increased a jail sentence to five years, in line with a Beijing-imposed national security law, for a student charged with “inciting secession.”

Lui Sai-yu, 25, an engineering undergraduate at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, was charged with inciting secession in April 2021 with messages on social media calling for “acts to be taken to unlawfully change the regime” in Hong Kong.