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Hong Kong’s security chief has accused a former lawmaker of “glorifying” jailed Stand News editor Chung Pui-kuen in an opinion piece published by Ming Pao. Secretary for Security Chris Tang on Monday wrote to the chief editor of the newspaper to rebut an opinion piece by Margaret Ng titled “Kuen, hang in there,” which was published on the same day. Chung, 55, was sentenced to 21 months in jail last week after being found guilty of “conspiracy to publish and reproduce seditious publications” in a landmark case. He was editor-in-chief of the shuttered news outlet Stand News, which gained promine…

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