Claims extracted
21
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
10%
2 of 21 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
66/100
BBC News's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
6
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
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Macau has sentenced an ex-lawmaker and pro-democracy campaigner to 12 years and six months' jail in the city's first national security case.
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Macau → publish → case
Following a closed-door trial, Au Kam San, 69, was convicted on Friday of "subversion against the political power of the state", among other offences.
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San → follow → offences
His wife Virginia Cheang condemned the ruling, calling the case a "groundless persecution designed to humiliate Au".
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wife → condemn → Au
Macau was handed back to China in 1999, ending over 400 years of Portuguese administration.
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Macau → hand → administration
Its national security law came into effect in 2009, criminalising acts of treason, secession, and subversion against the Chinese Communist Party.
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law → come → Party
The law was revised in 2023, broadening its scope to include non-violent acts of secession, and again this year, to allow for trials to be held behind closed doors.
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trials → revise → doors
Prosecutors had accused Au of assisting and collaborating with "external hostile organisations" by collecting, preparing and disseminating information that was "manifestly filled with political claims of a subversive nature against the state".
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that → accuse → state
These took place "over a long period of time", the prosecutors claim.
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prosecutors → take → time
Au was arrested in July 2025 and later charged with three counts of subverting the state's power, three counts of endangering national security by establishing contact with foreign organisations, and one count of breach of confidentiality.
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Au → arrest → confidentiality
He was found guilty of four of the seven charges following a three-day trial which ended in September.
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which → find → September
A judge had ordered that the trial be held behind closed doors "to ensure that no prejudice is caused to the interests of national security".
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prejudice → order → security
Macau's authorities never publicly disclosed the details of the case.
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authorities → disclose → case
Au's family had earlier told the media Au was not allowed to seek his own legal representation and had instead been assigned a lawyer by the court.
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Au → tell → court
Au's wife Cheang said she hoped authorities would grant her and her family permission to regularly write to and visit Au in prison.
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authorities → say → prison
"I dare not hope for more as I believe that will only lead to greater disappointment," she said in an open letter on Friday.
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she → hope → Friday
Au, who was formerly a primary school teacher, was elected to the Legislative Assembly in September 2001.
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who → elect → September
For 20 years, he served as one of only a handful of pro-democracy lawmakers in the legislature, largely made up of pro-Beijing loyalists.
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he → serve → loyalists
Au had co-organised annual vigils in Macau to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.
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Au → co → Beijing
These vigils were previously tolerated in places like Macau and Hong Kong, but have effectively been banned in both cities since China imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong in 2020.
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China → tolerate → 2020
Au's jailing comes a day after Hong Kong sentenced Joshua Wong, the face of its now-quashed democracy movement, to 10 years in jail.
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Kong → come → jail
Wong, 30, whose activism started when he was just a teen, has been in custody for the last six years.
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he → start → years
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