a major setback for press Freedom activists in Hong Kong after a court found two editors at the now defunct pro-democracy newspaper stand news guilty of sedition Chung P Quin and Patrick lamb could now face a sentence of up to two years in prison it's the first time journalists have been convicted of sedition since Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997 it comes nearly 3 years after the media Outlets offices were raided and its top editors detained stand news was active in covering Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 2019 through popular live streams and commentary pieces it's giving a door is giving a new tools to threaten journalists with sedition and could be and is in a way the strict Red Line about what they can report on and what they cannot