MacaoA closed-door court gave Au Kam-san 12.5 years.
It is the first public prosecution under Macao’s 2009 national security law.
The court found the 69-year-old guilty of subversion by spreading false information to disrupt the 2024 leadership election.
“It’s a political trial and it’s a groundless persecution,” his wife, Virginia Cheang, wrote in a public letter.
Human Rights Watch asked the EU and Portugal to press for his release.
How each outlet framed it
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- Al Jazeera Online
- frames the sentence as a national-security and subversion case, centring the court's claim of ties to 'hostile organisations' abroad, with the wife's 'political trial' rebuttal
Sources: Al Jazeera Online