{
  "id": 9153825,
  "title": "Committee to investigate Hong Kong district councillor’s sex crime conviction",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/committee-to-investigate-hong-kong-district-councillors-sex-crime-9153825",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-22T14:01:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3368429/hong-kong-appoints-committee-investigate-councillors-sex-crime-conviction"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Hong Kong authorities have appointed a five-member supervisory committee to investigate the conviction of a district councillor for having sex with a 13-year-old girl 15 years ago. Yuen Long district councillor Sei Chun-hing, 39, is the first elected officeholder to face possible imprisonment for a criminal offence since Beijing’s 2021 electoral overhaul, which restricted candidates to those…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}