The arrest and prosecution of opposition activist Tam Tak-chi has put the spotlight on a sleeping giant: a colonial-era sedition law already on Hong Kong’s books, despite not being deployed for decades.Laid out in broad terms in the city’s Crimes Ordinance, the nearly century-old law was used on Tuesday to target Tam over a string of allegedly seditious remarks that police and prosecutors said he made between March and July.Hong Kong opposition activist Tam Tak-chi charged with seditionThe…
from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3100740/what-hong-kongs-colonial-era-sedition-law-and-how-does-it
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
What is Hong Kong’s colonial-era sedition law, and how does it fit into landscape of national security legislation?
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