Hong Kong man on national security trial over protest chantsMore than 70 people, including many of the city's most prominent democracy activists, have been charged with national security crimes, almost all for holding political views now deemed illegal. HONG KONG: A Hong Kong man who chanted protest slogans pleaded not guilty to inciting secession on Tuesday in the second national security case to come to trial as authorities wield the sweeping new law to snuff out dissent. Most of those charged under the national security law are denied bail and Ma has been in custody since his arrest 10 months ago. Prosecutors said slogans Ma used that incited secession included "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times", "Hong Kong independence, the only way out", "Hong Kongers, build our own country", "One nation, one Hong Kong" and "All shall be valiant, start armed uprising". National security judges previously ruled in the July trial that "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times", a popular protest slogan, was secessionist.

Source: Bangkok Post September 28, 2021 06:22 UTC