Hong Kong, April 15 -- A Hong Kong resident has been sentenced to one year in prison under the city's expanding national security regime, in a case that is likely to intensify concerns over declining civil liberties.

Hong Kong Free Press reported that the individual, Raymond Chong, a retiree in his early 60s, pleaded guilty to publishing content deemed "seditious" by authorities.

As highlighted by Hong Kong Free Press, the case was heard at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts before national security judge Victor So. Chong was initially handed an 18-month sentence, which was later reduced to one year after accounting for his guilty plea. Hong Kong Free Press noted that the charges were linked to 53 Facebook posts made between March 202...