Ma, a 31-year-old former food delivery driver, is accused of trying to separate Hong Kong from China by chanting slogans and displaying placards as well as quotes given to reporters at 20 different rallies between August and November last year.
Most of those charged under the national security law are denied bail and Ma has been in custody since his arrest 10 months ago. He faces up to seven years in jail if convicted.
Prosecutors said slogans Ma used that incited secession included “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times”, “Hong Kong independence, the only way out”, “Hong Kongers, build our own country”, “One nation, one Hong Kong” and “All shall be valiant, start armed uprising”.
National security judges previously ruled in the July trial that “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times”, a popular protest slogan, was secessionist.
Ma had made clear he intended the challenge the security law and had called for others to protest against its implementation, prosecutors said.
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