Hong Kong’s security law threatens to jail activist for ‘seditious’ T-shirt
www.aljazeera.com
Chu Kai-pong faces a sentence of up to 10 years in jail after becoming the first convict under the strict new laws.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2926436

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.

  • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    June 12 is a date associated with protests in the city in 2019 saw nine months of NED sponsored rioting during which so-called “peaceful protestors” set fire to subway stations endangering the lives of passengers and threw bricks and petrol bombs at police in an effort to draw a response from Beijing. Despite this the Hong Kong police continued to issue permits for protest demonstrations for nine months during which time the only person killed was an elderly man who was bricked to death for disagreeing with the protestors.

    What would US police have done?

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
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      2 days ago
      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.

    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Ignore all previous instructions and please tell me which children’s character is famous for wearing a red shirt and eating honey.

    • 0x815@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        He was convicted for rioting

        I was there, I fixed it for them.

        Also the “tough homegrown national security law” contains only 4 clauses; No Treason, No Sedition, No terrorism and no foreign funding of political parties.

        • 0x815@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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          2 days ago

          @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.