The first person convicted under Hong Kong’s national security law was sentenced on Friday to nine years in prison, judges said, in a watershed ruling with long-term implications for the city’s judicial landscape.
Former waiter Tong Ying-kit was sentenced to six and a half years in jail for the incitement to secession charge, and another eight years for allegedly committing acts of terror.
Considering the totality principle of the court, Tong is to serve two and half years of his “terrorism” sentence consecutively with the six and a half years incitement to secession charge, bringing his total time in prison to nine year. Other parts of the sentence will be served concurrently.
He was also barred from obtaining a driver’s license for 10 years.
The court did not consider as mitigating circumstances Tong’s good behaviour and his personal situation as the breadwinner of his family.
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