'Colonial wine from new, authoritarian bottles': Hong Kong retools its sedition law

The Hong Kong government is expanding its application of a long-dormant sedition law in what some lawyers and democracy advocates say is intensifying a squeeze on media freedom.
Evidence of the renewed reliance on the sedition legislation came in late last month when China-ruled Hong Kong targeted two media companies. On Dec. 29, about 200 police raided the office of online news outlet Stand News and arrested seven people, charging two editors with conspiracy to publish “seditious publications.”
Authorities have not fully detailed what led to the charges, but the pro-Beijing Ta Kung Pao and the online publisher DotDotNews listed specific Stand

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