[2] The party's slogan is "Independence for Hong Kong, rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations" (香港獨立，重回英聯邦).
[3] In April 2024, Joseph John, HKIP president and socia media accounts manager, was sentenced to five years in jail for conspiring to incite others to commit secession, a crime under the Hong Kong national security law.
He had been arrested in November 2022 upon arriving in Hong Kong from the United Kingdom for a family visit.
As a holder of a Portuguese passport and a Hong Kong identity card, he was the first dual national convicted and jailed under the security law.
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