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A. Introduction

1. The Defendant in this case faces two offences (the 1^st and the 2^nd count) under the National Security Law (“NSL”)^[1] and another offence of “causing grievous bodily harm by dangerous driving” (“the 3^rd count”), which is laid as an alternative to the 2nd count, as follows:

First Count
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE
Incitement to secession
PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE

TONG Ying-kit, on the 1 day of July, 2020, in the area from Eastern Harbour Crossing to the junction of Jaffe Road and O’Brien Road, Wanchai, in Hong Kong, incited other persons to organise, plan, commit or participate in acts, whether or not by force or threat of force, with a view to committing secession or undermining national unification, namely separating the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from the People’s Republic of China or altering by unlawful means the legal status of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Second Count
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE
Terrorist activities
PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE

TONG Ying-kit, on the 1 day of July, 2020, in the area from Eastern Harbour Crossing to the junction of Jaffe Road and O’Brien Road, Wanchai, in Hong Kong, with a view to coercing the Central People’s Government or the Government

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1. The Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, applied to the HKSAR on 30 June 2020.