Hong Kong’s national security police on Wednesday raided two bookstores, seized boxes of books and arrested five people on suspicion of sedition.
The police accused two men and three women of displaying items “with seditious intention” and selling publications with “seditious content” that included “inciting hatred” against the Hong Kong government, its judiciary and the police, according to a government statement.
It was the third time in recent months that the police have arrested proprietors of independent bookstores, as part of a broader crackdown in the city that has increasingly focused on literature. The authorities are using a 2024 national security law to squash any dissent. The offense of “seditious intention” is punishable by up to seven years in prison.
Please note they are focusing on literature because they've already done away with print news, tv, radio, street flyers, gatherings, and Internet forums not to their liking.
Please note they are focusing on literature because they've already done away with print news, tv, radio, street flyers, gatherings, and Internet forums not to their liking.
I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free… to be white, cisgendered, straight, Christian, anti-abortion, anti-science, pro-capitalism, pro-police, and pro-military. Why’s can’t...
I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free… to be white, cisgendered, straight, Christian, anti-abortion, anti-science, pro-capitalism, pro-police, and pro-military. Why’s can’t everybody just fall in line with that freedom? It’s the freest freedom that ever freed.
Oh yeah, and we have freedom to bear arms too, in case we ever need to take a stand against TYRANNY. But only the specific kind of tyranny that’s done by people who want the wrong kinds of freedom, who actually have no social standing or real political power but are making us uncomfortable just by existing where we can see them. THOSE tyrants. Certainly not the people who are already in power and are using it to further marginalize and disenfranchise. That’s not tyranny, that’s, uh, freedom.
Please note they are focusing on literature because they've already done away with print news, tv, radio, street flyers, gatherings, and Internet forums not to their liking.
I hope I never have to live under a government that is raiding bookstores. It feels like it is getting closer and closer.
I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free… to be white, cisgendered, straight, Christian, anti-abortion, anti-science, pro-capitalism, pro-police, and pro-military. Why’s can’t everybody just fall in line with that freedom? It’s the freest freedom that ever freed.
Oh yeah, and we have freedom to bear arms too, in case we ever need to take a stand against TYRANNY. But only the specific kind of tyranny that’s done by people who want the wrong kinds of freedom, who actually have no social standing or real political power but are making us uncomfortable just by existing where we can see them. THOSE tyrants. Certainly not the people who are already in power and are using it to further marginalize and disenfranchise. That’s not tyranny, that’s, uh, freedom.