{"id":1051528,"date":"2022-09-08T03:57:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1051528"},"modified":"2022-09-08T03:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:57:57","slug":"five-speech-therapists-convicted-of-sedition-over-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1051528","title":{"rendered":"Five Speech Therapists Convicted of Sedition Over Children\u2019s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five speech therapists in Hong Kong were found guilty of sedition on Wednesday for publishing three picture books depicting sheep defending their home from wolves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In one of the books, a \u201cWolf-Chairman\u201d directed another wolf to masquerade as a sheep in an attempt to occupy the sheep village and eat those inside, Kwok wrote in a summary, per court records.<\/p>\n

Kwok described the disguised wolf as an analogy for the Beijing-backed Chief Executive of Hong Kong, which he wrote would lead children to view the city\u2019s real-life leader with contempt.<\/p>\n

Another book, titled \u201c12 Warriors of Sheep Village,\u201d appears to reference the 12 Hong Kong protestors who were caught trying to flee to Taiwan by sea in 2020.<\/p>\n

The book tells the story of 12 sheep who fled their village in a boat but were later captured and brought to be imprisoned in a wolf-run fortress. Kwok wrote that children who read the book would be \u201cled to believe that the 12 fugitives are victims of oppression and unfair prosecution\u201d.<\/p>\n

The third book involved a story that Kwok said would lead children to believe Beijing had allowed people coming from mainland China to \u201cmake their home dirty and spread the pandemic\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The five face potential jail terms for publishing books that sought to explain the democracy movement to children.<\/p>\n

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Five in Hong Kong found guilty of sedition for \u2018anti-government\u2019 children\u2019s books <\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Five Hong Kong speech therapists were found guilty on Wednesday of a conspiracy to publish seditious children\u2019s books that were deemed anti-government, a decision denounced by rights campaigners as a blow to free speech in the China-ruled city.<\/p>\n

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Hong Kong 12 who fled by boat for Taiwan held in \u2018criminal detention\u2019 by China <\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Beijing confirms for first time they are likely to face criminal charges, as foreign ministry accuses them of separatism<\/p>\n

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Five speech therapists in Hong Kong were found guilty of sedition on Wednesday for publishing three picture books depicting sheep defending their home from wolves.\u00a0 In one of the books, a \u201cWolf-Chairman\u201d directed another wolf to masquerade as a sheep … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1051529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,110],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-1051528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tg-daily","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-tg-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}