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A 27-year-old man named Chu Kai-pong pled guilty to “sedition” in a Hong Kong court on Monday because he wore a t-shirt with a protest slogan.from the 2019 uprising: “Five Demands, Not One Less.” The first of the Five Demands was the complete withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that touched off the protest movement.
Remembering those protests is now a crime in Hong Kong. The Chinese communist regime in Beijing crushed the pro-democracy movement bya tyrannical “national security law” with extralegal methods in 2020. The law criminalized everything the communists saw as a threat to their power, very much including calls for freedom and democracy.
The crime of “sedition” that Chu was charged with, for example, saw its maximum penalty increased from two years in prison to seven, possibly ten if prosecutors decide the defendant is also guilty of “collusion with foreign forces.” Hong Kong’s puppet government tends to portraypro-democracy activism as inspired and directed by foreign governments, particularly the United States.
Prosecutors, on the other hand, pointed to Chu’s four previous convictions, one of which netted him three months in jail for wearing the very same “Liberate Hong Kong” slogan on a t-shirt.to plead guilty to sedition in exchange for the court dropping other charges against him, including loitering and failing to produce identification when challenged by the police.
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