A court in Macau (a semi-autonomous former Portuguese enclave on China's southern coast) has completed preliminary hearings in the territory's first prosecution under its national security law, ruling that Ou Kam San, a democracy advocate who served as a legislator for two decades and organised annual Tiananmen vigils, has a case to answer on three charges including subversion of state power. The subversion charge alone carries a sentence of 10 to 25 years, and combined with two additional counts — maintaining contacts with outside organisations deemed harmful to national security and breaching secrecy obligations — the total maximum is 30 years; Macau does not have life imprisonment. The case, now referred to a criminal court for trial, comes alongside the scheduled prosecution of three journalists from the now-defunct independent outlet Outfire Media, highlighting a quiet but significant narrowing of political and press freedoms in Macau nearly two decades after its national security law was enacted.