Hong Kong jails speech therapists over kids' books

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 11, 2022 12:17 am

HONG KONG: Hong Kong jailed five speech therapists for sedition on Saturday over a series of illustrated children's books that portrayed the city's democracy supporters as sheep defending their village from wolves.

They join a growing list of residents jailed under a colonial-era sedition law that authorities have deployed alongside a national security law introduced by Beijing in 2020 to stamp out dissent.

This July 22, 2021 file photo shows Li Kwai-wah, senior superintendent of the Hong Kong police’s National Security Department, holding three children's books about a village of sheep that has to deal with wolves from a different village during a news conference in Hong Kong. AP PHOTO

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