Hong Kong Man Convicted Under New Law for Wearing Protest Slogan T-Shirt

Pleading guilty to sedition, he told police that the slogan was intended to remind people of the 2019 mass protests.

The Hong Kong flag outside the High Court in Hong Kong on July 28, 2023. Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

A Hong Kong man pleaded guilty to sedition on Sept. 16 for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, in what is believed to be the first conviction under the city’s national security law enacted in March.

Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act” under the city’s new security law, known as Article 23, the Hong Kong Free Press reported.