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H.K. Court Finds Five Guilty of Publishing Seditious Kid Books

  • Some 60 people have been arrested under sedition charge
  • Hong Kong has cracked down on free speech since 2019 protests
Content of children's books are displayed on a screen during a news conference at Hong Kong Police Headquarters in July.

Content of children's books are displayed on a screen during a news conference at Hong Kong Police Headquarters in July.

Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Getty Images

A Hong Kong court has convicted five former speech therapists of sedition for publishing children’s books likening democracy activists to sheep pursued by wolves, continuing a crackdown on free speech in the territory.

The former members of the General Union of Hong Kong Speech Therapists were found guilty of conspiring to publish, distribute, display or reproduce seditious publications by Judge Wai-kin Kwok at the District Court on Wednesday.