Hong Kong court to sentence former Stand News editors in landmark sedition case

Then Editor of Stand News Patrick Lam, center, is escorted by police officers into a van after they searched evidence at his office. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

A Hong Kong court is set to sentence two journalists in a landmark sedition case widely seen as an indicator of media freedom in a city once known as a beacon of press freedom in Asia.

Stand News former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam were the first journalists convicted under a colonial-era sedition law since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.