"The defendant intended to revive the original ideas of the massive and sometimes violent protests of 2019," the magistrate said. A journalist covering the protests in Hong Kong in 2019.Matthew Leung Lucas de la CalCorrespondent in Asia Chu Kai-pong,

A Hong Kong court has sentenced the first two people under a tough new Hong Kong national security law, including a man who was given 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan

A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to 14 months in jail after pleading guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan on it.The jail term is the first handed down by the city's court under a new local national security law that was passed in March.