Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced on Saturday to 19 months in jail for conspiracy to publish seditious children\u0027s books.
The five were convicted on Wednesday under a colonial-era sedition law in a case denounced by rights campaigners as a “brazen act of repression,” which the Hong Kong government has rejected.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
Lorie Lai, Melody Yeung, Sidney Ng, Samuel Chan and Marco Fong, aged 26 to 29, were convicted by Kwok, who was handpicked by the city’s leader to try national security cases. One the group’s lawyers estimated that the five could be out in 31 days once deductions were made, including the 13 months they spent in jail awaiting trial.Article content
Lai’s mitigation was interrupted by Kwok, who said “the court is not a place to make political speech.”Before being stopped, Lai had said the core issue of the trial was freedom of speech and “freedom with limitations is not freedom.”
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