FILE - Former chief editor Chung Pui-kuen, right, and former acting editor Patrick Lam, left, of the now-defunct independent media outlet Stand News leave the court on the last day of the publication's sedition trial closing statements in Hong Kong, June 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)

Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong's now shuttered pro-democracy news outlet Stand News, arrivies at the Wanchai District Court ahead of a verdict in a landmark sedition trial in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong's now-shuttered outlet Stand News, walks outside on bail after he was found guilty in a landmark sedition trial under a colonial-era law, in Wanchai District Court in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong's now-shuttered outlet Stand News, walks outside on bail after he was found guilty in a landmark sedition trial under a colonial-era law, in Wanchai District Court in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Foreign diplomats arrive at the district court ahead of the verdict on Chung Pui-kuen, the ex-chief editor of the now shuttered Stand News online outlet and his colleague Patrick Lam, former acting chief editor, in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong's now shuttered pro-democracy news outlet Stand News, arrivies at the Wanchai District Court ahead of a verdict in a landmark sedition trial in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong's now-shuttered outlet Stand News, walks outside on bail after he was found guilty in a landmark sedition trial under a colonial-era law, in Wanchai District Court in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Member of the media wait outside the district court ahead of the verdict on Chung Pui-kuen, the ex-chief editor of the now shuttered Stand News online outlet and his colleague Patrick Lam, former acting chief editor, in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong's now shuttered pro-democracy news outlet Stand News, arrivies at the Wanchai District Court ahead of a verdict in a landmark sedition trial in Hong Kong on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Billy H.C. Kwok)

FILE - A worker carrying some containers walks past police officers during a raid on the office of Stand News during a raid in Hong Kong, Dec. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

FILE - Chung Pui-kuen, second left, former chief editor and Patrick Lam, left, former acting editor of the now-defunct independent media outlet Stand News leave the court on the last day of the publication's sedition trial closing statements, in Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)