Hong Kong journalist-turned-activist Gwyneth Ho did not submit a mitigation statement in the city’s largest national security trial, a move that could see her handed a longer jail term for an offence with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Former Stand News journalist Ho appeared at the West Kowloon Law Courts Building on Tuesday alongside eight other pro-democracy activists, whose turn it was to submit mitigation pleas before being sentenced for conspiring to subvert state power under the Beijing-imposed national security law. The offence revolves around an unofficial primary election in…
