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A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to three months imprisonment on Wednesday for putting on a T-shirt with a seditious intent of solidarity slogan from the 2019 protests.
The 26-year-old Chu Kai-pong was apprehended and charged last November at the Hong Kong International Airport before his flight to Taiwan wearing a T-shirt with the words “Free Hong Kong” in English and “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” in Chinese.
The statement on his T-shirt was found to be against national security law established in 2020 which "incited secession”.
It was reported that another T-shirt and some flags found among his belongings were also deemed to be seditious.
In sentencing, West Kowloon chief magistrate Victor So said the defendant had bought the items from Taiwan, which revealed that he broke the law intentionally.
However, the chief magistrate agreed with the defence lawyer that wearing the T-shirt in public was "less penetrative" than spreading such messages online and that the defendant had only displayed the seditious words for a relatively short period.
一名26歲男子因使用煽動意圖標語的T卹被判入獄3個月
週三，一名香港男子因穿著 2019 年抗議活動中的團結口號的煽動性 T 卹而被判處三個月監禁。
去年11 月，26 歲的朱繼鵬在飛往台灣之前在香港國際機場被捕並受到指控，當時他身穿印有英文“Free Hong Kong”和“Liberate Hong Kong， revolution of Hong Kong”字樣的T 卹。我們的時代」的中文。
他 T 恤上的聲明被發現違反了 2020 年制定的「煽動分裂國家」的國家安全法。
據報道，在他的物品中發現的另一件T恤和一些旗幟也被認為具有煽動性。
西九龍首席裁判官蘇澤鑷判刑時表示，被告是向台灣購買這些物品，顯示他故意違法。
不過，首席裁判官同意辯護律師的觀點，即在公共場合穿著這件T卹比在網上傳播此類信息“更具滲透性”，而且被告只在相對較短的時間內展示了煽動性言論。
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