A female journalist has become the first person to be jailed for
breaking Hong Kong’s national anthem law after waving a British
colonial-era flag to celebrate Cheung Ka Long’s fencing gold medal
at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
An online news reporter has been jailed for three months after pleading guilty to insulting China's national anthem by waving the British Hong Kong flag at a mall screening of the Olympic gold medal ceremony for local fencer Edgar Cheung Ka-long in 2021.