According to a new national security law, two people were detained for rebellion on Saturday, according to Hong Kong officers, who were accused of spreading hate against local and Chinese authorities.
The second rebellion conviction of its kind since the city came under Chinese rule in 1997, which came just one day after the pro-democracy media outlet Stand News and two former editors were found guilty of it.
Critics claim that officers in the Chinese financial hub have targeted state critics and stifled protest by using the insurrection crime, which has origins in British colonial rule.
A male aged 41 and a 28-year-old lady were arrested on Friday for committing” an action or acts that had a subversive goal” and remained in custody, police said in a statement.
According to Hong Kong press reports, the arrests were prompted by a word that was widely shared on social media this week after a teacher was killed on railroad tracks.
The writer expressed depressive ideas as a result of hopelessness for Hong Kong’s coming. AFP was unable to confirm the personality of the author.
According to authorities, the person is suspected of “publishing phony last words of the deceased in relation to a new death situation.”
They said the guy was accused of placing “memorial light containers” in different areas, with material “provoking contempt” of the governments in Beijing and Hong Kong, authorities said.
The maximum sentence for sedition was increased from two decades to seven in the new federal security law, which was passed in March.
Following extensive, often harsh pro-democracy protests a year prior, Beijing imposed its own national security law in Hong Kong in 2020.
Those protests led to a assault on free speech that has resulted in China’s critics being imprisoned or forced to flee.
The new rules, which the United States and Britain have outspoken critics of, are one of the two countries that have criticized it.
According to numerous laws, 301 people had been detained for regional security crimes on August 1.
