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Hong Kong protests: 3 jailed for up to 10 months in final chapter of seditious book trial
- Vendors Alan Keung, Alex Lee and Cannis Chan sentenced on charges of conspiracy to do an act or acts with seditious intent
- Prosecutors tell court trio intended to sell 400 copies of untitled photo album which contained 46 seditious statements and images of 2019 social unrest
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A couple and an activist in Hong Kong have been jailed for up to 10 months under a colonial-era sedition law for producing and selling a photo book critical of how authorities handled the 2019 anti-government protests.
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A magistrate approved by the city’s leader to oversee the case sentenced the trio on Monday on a charge of conspiracy to do an act or acts with seditious intent, two months after they were remanded in custody on national security grounds.
The court earlier heard Alan Keung Ka-wai, 31, founder of online news outlet Free HK Media, together with couple Alex Lee Lung-yin, 52, and Cannis Chan Sheung-yan, 48, ran a pop-up stall at Mong Kok’s Ginza Plaza from December 2022 until their arrests in mid-January.
The West Kowloon Court heard the group had intended to sell 400 copies of an untitled photo album which contained 46 seditious statements and images about “the riots and violent incidents during Hong Kong’s social turmoil that began in June 2019”.
Prosecutor Vincent Lee Ting-wai said the editor of the 300-page book, who was not identified, made derogatory remarks about the government and police when recounting events related to the months of protests sparked by a now-withdrawn extradition bill.
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