A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books deemed to be “seditious publications.”
Li Kwai-wah, senior superintendent of Police National Security Department holds up three children's books on stories that revolve around a village of sheep which has to deal with wolves from a different village, before a press conference in Hong Kong, Thursday, July 22, 2021. A Hong Kong man was sentenced to four months in prison Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books about sheeps and wolves that were deemed seditious.
The books feature sheep that lived in a village and had to defend themselves against wolves. In the series of books, the sheep take action such as going on strike or escaping by boat, which are said to allude to incidents such as the 2019 anti-government protests and the detention of the 12 Hong Kongers who attempted to escape by sea.
The creators of the sheep and wolves books were five members of the General Union of Hong Kong Speech Therapists. They were sentenced to 19 months in prison in September 2022. Hong Kong has seen its freedoms decline in recent years as Beijing has tightened control over the city, following the imposition of a sweeping national security law aimed at stamping out dissent.
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