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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Verna Yu

Hong Kong: two arrested for possessing ‘seditious’ children’s book

A police official displays three children's books that portray Hongkongers during the 2019 unrest as sheep defending their village from wolves
A police official displays three children's books that portray Hongkongers during the 2019 unrest as sheep defending their village from wolves. Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP

Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested two men for possessing children’s books deemed seditious by the authorities, in the latest of a series of moves that underline the state of civil freedoms in the city.

The two men, aged 38 and 50, were arrested and detained after police and customs officers searched their homes and offices and found copies of “seditious publications” that allegedly “incited hatred or contempt” against the Chinese and Hong Kong governments and the judiciary, according to a police press release cited in the local media.

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