Thursday, 29 Jul 2021 02:41 PM MYT Activist Tam Tak-chi walks with a black banner towards the Chinese Liaison office after an annual protest march on China’s national day, in Hong Kong in this file photo taken on October 1, 2017. — AFP pic Follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates. HONG KONG, July 29 — A pro-democracy Hong Kong DJ went on trial Thursday for sedition in the first use of the colonial-era law since the city’s handover to China as authorities broaden their criminalisation of dissent. Tam Tak-chi, 48, is among a growing number of activists charged with sedition, a little-used decades-old law that prosecutors have dusted off in the last twelve months.