Hong Kong police arrest and hood 5 speech therapists for ‘inciting a backlash in opposition to Beijing’ with youngsters’s e-book tha depicts China as a wolf
- The 5 speech therapists had been paraded hooded and handcuffed in Hong Kong
- They’re revealed by the Normal Affiliation of Hong Kong Speech Therapists
- The books pit pro-democracy activists as sheep in opposition to wolves, stated to be China
Speech therapists behind three youngsters’s books have been arrested on suspicion of inciting a backlash in opposition to Beijing.
The 5 had been paraded hooded and handcuffed in Hong Kong yesterday and face the prospect of years behind bars.
Revealed by commerce union the Normal Affiliation of Hong Kong Speech Therapists, the books pit pro-democracy activists as sheep in opposition to wolves, stated to symbolize China.
Superintendent Li Kwai-wah stated the 2 males and three girls, aged from 25 to twenty-eight, had been trying to fire up ‘the general public’s – and particularly younger youngsters’s – hatred in direction of Hong Kong’s authorities and judiciary and to incite violence and unlawful acts’.
The 5 had been paraded hooded and handcuffed in Hong Kong yesterday and face the prospect of years behind bars
Revealed by commerce union the Normal Affiliation of Hong Kong Speech Therapists, the books pit pro-democracy activists as sheep in opposition to wolves, stated to symbolize China
‘Guardians of Sheep Village’ defined the town’s 2019 wave of protests.
‘Janitors of Sheep Village’ explains to readers that motion in opposition to litter-bug wolves refers to a medical staff’ strike final 12 months.
In ‘The 12 Braves of Sheep Village’, sheep flee by boat, a reference to 12 Hong Kongers jailed for attempting to flee by speedboat to Taiwan final 12 months.
The accused are charged with sedition – a colonial-era legislation that till 2020 had not been used for the reason that 1997 handover to China.
It carries as much as two years in jail for a primary offence.
Prosecutors now usually use it underneath the draconian nationwide safety legislation introduced in by Beijing.
Police stated: ‘Residents should see the information clearly, not condone or beautify violence, and never let the following technology be incited and misled.’