Hong Kong Unleashes Courts against Children’s Sheep Fiction

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Children’s books about a village of sheep that has come under the scrutiny of Hong Kong’s National Security Law, July 22, 2021. © 2021 Vincent Yu/AP Photo Each day seems to bring a new loss of freedoms in Hong Kong. Last week the authorities prosecuted a Hong Kong man who had received a shipment of 18 “seditious” books from the United Kingdom. The authorities accused Kurt Leung Kui-ming of intending to “incite violence” and promote “feelings of ill-will and enmity” in the city. It was the first time the government has invoked the offense of “importing seditious publications”…

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