Hong Kong: First person convicted under China-imposed security law faces up to ten years in prison for wearing 'seditious' t-shirt (www.aljazeera.com)
from 0x815@feddit.org to world@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 06:02
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A Hong Kong man is facing as long as 10 years in jail after he pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt featuring a protest slogan.

In court on Monday, Chu Kai-pong, 27, was the first person to be convicted under Hong Kong’s tough homegrown national security law enacted in March.

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He was arrested on June 12 at a train station wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times”, and a yellow mask printed with “FDNOL” – the shorthand for another pro-democracy slogan, “five demands, not one less”. June 12 is a date associated with protests in the city in 2019.

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Chu’s lawyer argued that the maximum he could be given would be two years.

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MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 06:04 next collapse
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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 07:08 next collapse

Chilling. It’ll come here as well, mark my words.

[deleted] on 17 Sep 2024 07:22 next collapse
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0x815@feddit.org on 17 Sep 2024 07:31 next collapse

This quote is not from the article. Where is it from?

And this person was wearing a t-shirt. He was convicted for wearing a t-shirt.

[deleted] on 17 Sep 2024 07:39 collapse
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0x815@feddit.org on 17 Sep 2024 08:00 collapse

@wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world

He was convicted for rioting

No, just read the article. He was arrested on June 12 at a train station

wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times”, and a yellow mask printed with “FDNOL” – the shorthand for another pro-democracy slogan, “five demands, not one less”. June 12 is a date associated with protests in the city in 2019.

Your comments are fabricated, you’re posting biased quotes without providing a source. This does not contribute to a good internet culture.

[deleted] on 17 Sep 2024 07:33 next collapse
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jlh@lemmy.jlh.name on 17 Sep 2024 07:35 collapse
  1. Not from the article
  2. Not related to the civil rights discussion raised by the article
  3. No source for this quote
  4. Cherrypicking one-sided events from a conflict that lasted almost an entire year
  5. Russian propaganda blaming the National Endowment for Democracy (sub: CIA) for all protests worldwide
  6. Misinformation claiming that subway stations were set on fire
  7. Misinformation claiming that protesters deliberately attacked the man who was killed by a falling brick

This doesn’t contribute to the discussion.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 11:42 collapse

Not an oppressive regime at all, nuh-uh! 🙄