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By contrast the headline at bottom is about the thugs that attacked protesters at an MTR station. Hey beat them viciously amd was all caught on camera. They were believed to be pro-government types. Bringing them to justice is a good thing.
Arresting booksellers not so much.
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ADDED: Comments are taking a very anti-slant: i.e. mocking the arrests for making satire illegal. Samples:
Lol, satire is a crime now! China quickly cementing itself as the laughing stock of the world. Continuing Mao's cultural devolution.
0 Based on hundreds-of-year long common law, 'sedition' involves causing the receivers to act due to the seditious materials distributed or published.But the draconian National Security Law (Hong Kong version) focuses on politics only and its main function is to silence dissidents and have them (even suspected ones) to be harshly punished by the http://law.No wonder, the western civilized democratic countries claimed that the goal of the Law (which was promptly formulated and had not been read by our sole delegate in the National People's Congress's standing committee nor our Chief Executive before its promulgation/announcement.) was to silence dissidents in this city after the forced closure of the outspoken local paper,' The Apple Daily
It is obvious these publications are aimed at mocking the mainlanders and government and in most places this is rated as satire. However, branding these as seditious material is a bit rich.
Sad the way things are going. I assume satire would also now be illegal if it was directed at government officials or their actions. It's funny how people defend the NSL and say that all countries have national security laws like this .... because when I search Amazon UK for 'boris johnson' then every item is derogatory or 'inciting seditious thought', yet no one is being arrested or products withdrawn.
So if you come up with ideas to improve your government, is that seditious? If you say so and so is not suitable to be the head of gov, would that constitute an offence, bordering on seditiousness?
So why this book and not other revolutionary related history books? I'm sure our editors in SCMP have more scathing comments about the government and the protest events of 2019 than a picture book with no words. Didn't SCMP also publish a book about the 2019 events with actual photos of protesters going up against police? I would think that's more graphic than a bunch of sheep and wolves.
Damn the electric fence!
