District Judge Louisa Cieciora said they must abide by conditions including a 10pm to 5am curfew, reporting weekly to their local police station, not travelling internationally and informing police of devices used to access the internet.
They were charged with the offences under the National Security Act following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command which saw 11 people arrested.
Eight men and a woman were arrested by officers on May 1 in the Yorkshire area before a man was arrested in London and another man was arrested in the Yorkshire area the following day, the Metropolitan Police said.
The seven men and one woman who were not charged were released from custody on or before May 10.
After Beijing imposed a new security law to crack down on free speech in 2020, the UK government gave almost three million residents of Hong Kong the right to move to the UK permanently.
The ruling, which represented the biggest opening of the UK borders since the 1948 British Nationality Act, applied to Hong Kongers who held a British National Overseas (BNO) passport.
Dominic Raab, then deputy prime minister, said at the time the UK was honouring its “historic responsibility” to the people of Hong Kong
Since then, it is estimated that 125,000 Hong Kongers have entered the UK, making it one of the largest migrant waves modern Britain has ever seen.
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