Hong Kong Court Sentences Speech Therapists To 19 Months In Prison For Seditious Children S Books
A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced five speech therapists to 19 months in prison over children’s books deemed divisive, in a case that rights advocates say is a major blow to free speech amid a tightening of civil liberties in the Chinese territory. On Wednesday, Lorie Lai, Melody Yeung, Sidney Ng, Samuel Chan and Marco Fong were found guilty of “conspiracy to print, publish, distribute, display and/or reproduce extremist publications”....