A Hong Kong man convicted for wearing a "seditious" T-shirt last year was sentenced to 14 months in jail under the city's new security law that continues to crack down on supporters of anti-government demonstrations.

A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to 14 months in jail after pleading guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan on it. The jail term is the first handed down by the city's court under a new local national security law that was passed in March.

A Hong Kong court sentenced a man to 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with protest slogans, marking the city’s first use of a new national security law to punish people accused of endangering the Chinese state.

A Hong Kong man was sentenced to 14 months in jail on Thursday for wearing a T-shirt with protest slogans found to be "seditious" under the city's new national security law.- Second man jailed - In a separate case Thursday,

"The defendant intended to revive the original ideas of the massive and sometimes violent protests of 2019," the magistrate said. A journalist covering the protests in Hong Kong in 2019.Matthew Leung Lucas de la CalCorrespondent in Asia Chu Kai-pong,

Hong Kong’s new security law is “unambiguous” about what counts as unlawful seditious acts, the city’s government has said, after a man was sentenced to 14 months in jail in the first conviction under the legislation.