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Hong Kong therapists convicted of sedition over children’s books

Books depicted sheep fleeing from invading wolves, which judge found aimed to incite hatred against China

A court in Hong Kong has convicted five speech therapists of producing “seditious publications” in the form of a series of illustrated children’s books that depicted sheep trying to defend their village from wolves.

The convictions are the latest using a colonial-era sedition offence that authorities have deployed alongside a new national security law to stamp out dissent.

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