Hong Kong sentences 19-year-old with autism to probation for ‘seditious’ toilet graffiti

Charged under Hong Kong’s national security law, he had faced up to seven years in prison.

A Hong Kong student has been spared jail for seditious acts in breach of the domestic national security law, after a court ruled that his good background, young age and the limited impact of his offences constituted “exceptional circumstances”. Leung Kai-lok, 19, is potentially the first person to avoid a custodial sen