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Hong Kong retiree jailed for 8 months over seditious Facebook posts

Lam Chung-ming admitted to posting 130 seditious Facebook posts over 14 months, calling for election boycotts and criticizing authorities under Hong Kong's Article 23 law.

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a 68-year-old retiree to eight months in jail for sedition under the city’s homegrown security law, after the man published more than 100 Facebook posts criticising authorities and calling for a boycott of last year’s legislative polls. West Kowloon Law Courts Building. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Lam Chung-ming pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of “knowingly publishing publications that had a seditious intenti…

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Hong Kong Free Press broke the news in Hong Kong, Hong Kong on Sunday, March 1, 2026.
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