Macau jails ex-lawmaker Au Kam San over 12 years in first national security conviction
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Au Kam San, 69, a former legislator and pro-democracy campaigner, received 12 years and six months on Friday after a closed trial—Macau’s first national security case—for “subversion against the political power of the state” and other counts; his wife Virginia Cheang called it groundless persecution. China took Macau from Portugal in 1999; its 2009 security law was tightened in 2023 and again in 2025 for closed hearings; arrested July 2025, he faced seven charges tied to alleged collaboration with foreign bodies and was convicted on four after a trial that ended in September.
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