Hong Kong’s upcoming national security law should increase the penalties for sedition, security minister Chris Tang has said, describing the current two-year maximum prison term for a first offence as “insufficient.” Tang and Deputy Secretary for Justice Cheung Kwok-kwan met the press on Wednesday after exchanging views with lawmakers about Article 23 – the city’s homegrown national security law due to be passed by the Legislative Council this year. More than three years after a Beijing-imposed national security law came into force, Hong Kong authorities began the process of enacting a new dom…
