5 Hong Kong Speech Therapists Sentenced to 19 Months Over Children’s Books

5 Hong Kong Speech Therapists Sentenced to 19 Months Over Children’s Books
Children's books that five people were arrested over suspicion of conspiring to publish "seditious material" in Hong Kong on July 22, 2021. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced on Saturday to 19 months in jail for conspiracy to publish “seditious” children’s books that prosecutors had deemed anti-government.

The five were convicted on Wednesday under a colonial-era sedition law in a case denounced by rights campaigners as a “brazen act of repression.”