HK court rejects challenge to nat’l security law

Al Jazeera :

A Hong Kong court has dismissed a jailed protester’s bid for early release in the first legal challenge to the Chinese territory’s recently enacted national security law.
Ma Chun-man was sentenced to five years in prison for “inciting secession” under a Beijing-decreed national security law introduced in 2020.
Ma would normally have been eligible for a one-third reduction in his sentence for good behaviour but a second national security law passed by Hong Kong’s legislature earlier this year raised the bar for remission in national security cases.