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Fiona Chow

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a construction worker to 10 months in prison for throwing dozens of sheets of paper bearing seditious messages from his flat in 2024 and last year.
Raymond Wong Chan-fai, 55, told Chief Magistrate Victor So Wai-tak in mitigation on Tuesday that he had written offensive messages targeting police, judges and mainland Chinese residents on the papers and thrown them out of his window to “let off steam”.
Wong earlier pleaded guilty at West Kowloon Court to two counts of doing an act with seditious intention under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.
He said he did not have any seditious intent when distributing the papers from his 13th-floor flat at On Tat Estate, Kwun Tong.
His lawyer said Wong lost his full-time job and had been working part-time following the anti-government protests in 2019 and subsequently the pandemic.
“[Wong] built up resentment but did not know how to control the anger,” the lawyer said.
The court heard the defendant wrote messages calling for the murder of police officers, judges and mainland residents.
Kwun Tong district councillor Hsu Yau-wai reported the case to police after she picked up 41 sheets of paper bearing slogans on the podium floor of Lai Tat House at the estate on October 2, 2024.




Prosecutors said the papers contained derogatory remarks about police officers and judges. Wong also wrote that mainlanders did not deserve to die peacefully.
On December 5 last year, a property manager at the estate discovered another pile of papers scattered in the same area ahead of the Legislative Council election. The new slogans included: “Liberate Hong Kong, do not vote.”
Police arrested Wong in April this year after finding his fingerprints on the seized papers.
Before sentencing, the court was told that housing authorities had issued a notice to the defendant to take back his flat because of his criminal offence.
So said Wong had not “acted on impulse,” noting the papers were thrown on specific dates.
He slammed the defendant for “rationalising violence”, with an intent to endanger public safety.


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Raymond Wong wrote offensive messages targeting police, judges and mainland residents and threw them out of his window


Raymond Wong wrote offensive messages targeting police, judges and mainland residents and threw them out of his window.


Man jailed for 10 months over seditious messages thrown from Hong Kong flat

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Raymond Wong wrote offensive messages targeting police, judges and mainland residents and threw them out of his window