Hong Kong housewife gets 3 months in psychiatric institution over seditious posters
An elderly woman who pasted materials containing pro-independence slogans and Hong Kong’s colonial-era flag outside her flat has been sentenced to three months in a maximum-security psychiatric institution for displaying seditious publications. West Kowloon Court ordered housewife Yang Chau-ki, 62, to undergo mandatory psychiatric treatment at the Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre on Friday. She was…
An elderly woman named Yang Chau-ki, 62, has been sentenced to three months in a psychiatric institution for displaying seditious publications outside her home in Hong Kong. The materials included a colonial-era flag, slogans from the 2019 anti-government protests, and a traditional Chinese New Year decoration referencing a revolutionary slogan.
Principal Magistrate Don So Man-lung ruled that Yang intentionally displayed the items, knowing their seditious intent, to incite dissatisfaction with the current administration and encourage the overthrow of the entire system.
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