A Hong Kong court has been urged to consider whether the sedition law imposes disproportional restrictions on free speech. Koo Sze-yiu of the League of Social Democrats appeared at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Monday in front of Principal Magistrate Peter Law – one of the city’s handpicked national security judges, on Monday. The activist was arrested by the national security police on February 4 – hours before a planned protest against the Winter Olympics. Initially arrested under the Beijing-imposed national security law, Koo, who was 75 at the time of the arrest, was later charge…
