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29-12-2021, 05:43 PM
Anyone can be charged under this law..
A 'dangerous precedent'
Eric Lai, Hong Kong law fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Asian Law, told DW that the arrests would be a "dangerous precedent" as the government can arrest people "retroactively."
"The charge of seditious publication was also used to charge the unionists who published the children's book a few months ago," Lai said, referring to five people being detained in July for publishing a book called "Defenders of the Sheep Village."
"It was quite disturbing because seditious law in Hong Kong is a kind of speech crime that the government can use whenever it needs once they interpret any expression or publications that are anti-government."
https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-police-a...a-60282506
A 'dangerous precedent'
Eric Lai, Hong Kong law fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Asian Law, told DW that the arrests would be a "dangerous precedent" as the government can arrest people "retroactively."
"The charge of seditious publication was also used to charge the unionists who published the children's book a few months ago," Lai said, referring to five people being detained in July for publishing a book called "Defenders of the Sheep Village."
"It was quite disturbing because seditious law in Hong Kong is a kind of speech crime that the government can use whenever it needs once they interpret any expression or publications that are anti-government."
https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-police-a...a-60282506
