Recent court rulings and colonial-era laws covering sedition opened the gate for authorities to activate and utilize the new law against the media, including digital and social media, according to reports. The law covers terrorism, collusion with foreign forces, subversion, and secession. Reuters reported sedition is not among the offenses covered under the national security law imposed by Beijing in June 2020. The editors were formally charged, along with the corporate entity behind the media outlet, Best Pencil (Hong Kong) Limited, with conspiring to publish seditious materials following the enactment of the new security law. They reportedly confiscated her passport, identification card, mobile phones, and computers.Īuthorities released Ho, along with three other Stand News board members - barrister Margaret Ng, Chow Tat-chi, and Christine Fang - on bail 36 hours later on December 30.Īuthorities denied bail for editors Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam the same day, reported Reuters. Police also searched Ho's home for more than two hours. Ho resigned from Stand News' board in June, reported the Star Observer. Ho, 44, was one of six former board members of the independent media outlet who were arrested under the suspicion of "conspiracy to publish seditious material." They were taken to the Western Police Station. Hong Kong's National Security Police arrested Ho in her home December 28 allegedly due to her past board membership at Stand News, a pro-democracy media group. Hong Kong lesbian Cantopop singer and pro-democracy activist Denise Ho is out on bail following her arrest late last month.
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