2 arrested for seditious messages

September 27, 2022

Police’s National Security Department today arrested two men suspected of publishing posts on social platforms to disseminate seditious messages.

 

It noted that the messages promote feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of the Hong Kong population and incite the use of violence.

 

The arrestees, aged 18 and 29, are suspected of doing an act or acts with seditious intention in contravention of sections 9 and 10 of the Crimes Ordinance.

 

Electronic communication devices which were used to publish seditious messages were also seized after officers conducted searches at the arrestees’ residences with a court warrant.

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