5 Hong Kong speech therapists jailed for conspiracy to 'brainwash' children with cartoons

HONG KONG - Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced Saturday to 19 months in jail for conspiracy tothat prosecutors deemed anti-government.

District Court Judge Kwok Wai Kin said the defendants had to be punished"not because of the publication or the words but because of their harm or the risk of harm to the minds of children", saying the works sowed seeds of"instability". The books referred to events, including the city's mass pro-democracy protests in 2019 and the case of 12 democracy protesters who fled Hong Kong by speedboat in 2020 and were captured by the Chinese coast guard.It is the first time a seditious publications case has gone to trial since the 2019 protests and the imposition of a national security law on Hong Kong by Beijing in 2020, which officials say is vital to restore stability.

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