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Six Arrested in Hong Kong for Social Media Posts

On Tuesday in Hong Kong, six people were arrested for posting “seditious social media” about the city’s new national security law. The page, which included those six people, had published many posts about the 35th anniversary of the 1989 event which was a very sensitive topic in Hong Kong and China. The media that was posted was aimed to “encourage citizens to organize activities endangering national security.” The media was rather discrete, but aged from 37 to 65, those six people were arrested. According to NBC News, “The new law, known locally as “Article 23,” has expanded the government’s power to deal with future challenges to its rule, punishing treason and insurrection with up to life imprisonment. Under the legislation, offenders who commit sedition offenses face harsher penalties than before. They face a maximum jail term of seven years if convicted for committing seditious acts or uttering seditious words — up from the previous maximum sentence of two years.”

 

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