Two former editors of defunct independent Hong Kong media outlet Stand News face sentencing on Thursday afternoon, as the city’s first sedition trial of journalists since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997 comes to a close. Stand News’ former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen, 54, and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam, 36, are due to appear in front of judge Kwok Wai-kin at Wan Chai’s District Court at 2.30 pm to hear their sentences. The pair, and Stand News’ parent company, were found guilty last month of taking part in a “conspiracy to publish and reproduce sedi…
