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.

A Hong Kong man convicted for wearing a "seditious" T-shirt last year was sentenced to 14 months in jail under the city's new security law that continues to crack down on supporters of anti-government demonstrations.

A Hong Kong court sentenced a man to 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with protest slogans, marking the city’s first use of a new national security law to punish people accused of endangering the Chinese state.

A 27-year-old arrested for wearing a protest T-shirt became the first person convicted under Hong Kong's new security law that supports Beijing. Chu Kai-pong was convicted on one charge of doing acts with seditious intent for wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Liberate Hong Kong,

"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,

Hong Kong’s new security law is “unambiguous” about what counts as unlawful seditious acts, the city’s government has said, after a man was sentenced to 14 months in jail in the first conviction under the legislation.

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a third person convicted of sedition under the domestic national security law to 14 months in prison, ruling he defied the nation’s sovereignty and instigated hatred towards officials with persistent calls for “dictators” Xi Jinping and John Lee Ka-chiu to step down.