Hong Kong: first person convicted under security law for wearing protest T-shirt (www.theguardian.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 12:48
https://lemmy.world/post/19829802

Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to ‘act with seditious intent’ for displaying slogan: ‘Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times

A man in Hong Kong has pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person to be convicted under the city’s controversial national security law known as Article 23, passed in March.

Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of “doing acts with seditious intent”.

Under the new security law, the maximum sentence for the offence has been increased from two years to seven years in prison and could even go up to 10 years if “collusion with foreign forces” is found to be involved.

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cygnus@lemmy.ca on 16 Sep 13:15 next collapse

The mighty CCP, with superpower ambitions, afraid of a t-shirt.

Visstix@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:21 collapse

Cowardly cunts party

lowleveldata@programming.dev on 16 Sep 13:29 next collapse

first?

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 13:57 next collapse

Under their new “security” law

NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 14:03 collapse

Nah, Cygnus beat you by about 14 min.

(On a serious note, had you already heard about someone else being convicted under the new security law? It also sounds like they’re talking about how the sentence was increased from 2 years to 7-10 years.)

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 14:30 next collapse

I get it. It might have been one of those suicide T-shirts that terrorists use.

mysticpickle@lemmy.ca on 16 Sep 17:49 next collapse

And China wonders why Taiwanese people don’t want anything to do with them :o

ieatpwns@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:56 next collapse

Wild because ccp is the first one operating with seditious intent on foreign soil

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com on 16 Sep 19:19 collapse

Man I know I guy over there that was just the best but he got screwed over trusting a professor to sponsor him here.