On November 6, 69-year-old former Macau pro-democracy legislator Au Kam-san was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison in Macau's first national security case; Human Rights Watch, the US, Portugal, the EU, and the UN have called for his release and expressed condemnation, and Portugal has engaged in diplomatic representations with the Chinese side.[Political Persecution][Macao][Political Prisoner Trials][Ou Jinxin]