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Hong Kong journalist sentenced to prison for waving colonial flag during national anthem

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A Hong Kong court Thursday sentenced citizen journalist Paula Leung to three months in prison – the first conviction under the National Anthem Ordinance of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong. The act, passed in China on September 1 , 2017, was enacted in Hong Kong on June 12 , 2020.