From HKFP…
Police said in a statement just after midnight on Thursday that a woman, 33, and a man, 32, were arrested on Wednesday. The pair allegedly displayed and sold “seditious” titles and “received multiple remittances from foreign political organisations,” they said.
Local media reports identified the woman as ex-Civic Party district councillor Leticia Wong, who runs Hunter Bookstore in Sham Shui Po…
In the statement, police said the two allegedly sold seditious titles that stoked hatred against Hong Kong authorities, the judiciary, and law enforcement agencies. They were suspected of violating the city’s homegrown national security law, the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, commonly known as Article 23.
…Last year, HKFP reported that Hunter Bookstore had faced dozens of inspections and audits by various government departments.
…In March, independent bookseller Pong Yat-ming and three of the staff members of his Book Punch store were reportedly arrested on suspicion of selling seditious titles, including a biography of jailed media mogul Jimmy Lai.
No details as to what the ‘seditious’ books are, let alone how they stoked hatred of the authorities. Nor of the ‘foreign political organizations’ that sent ‘multiple remittances’. However, the Standard states that…
Hunter Bookstore had been selling books that defame the central and SAR governments and glorify the 2019 unrest, including the biography of Jimmy Lai and works by anti-government figures. It also hosted talks and sharing sessions targeting young people, and collaborated with other anti-government shops on exhibitions and film screenings.
Government statement. A pic of police ‘rectifying’ the shop window here.
From a year ago – a Japanese outlet’s feature on the store…
Friends and customers often ask Wong if she’s afraid to be selling these kinds of books.
When I ask her the same question, she replies, “I want to ask the opposite. Why are you afraid? What exactly is so frightening? If you look fear in the eye, you might realize it’s not as terrifying as it seems.”
Hunter Bookstore has been inspected several times by government officials.
“They’re just trying to intimidate. If I’ve broken a law, they can arrest me,” Wong says calmly.
The LA Times picks up the story.
FTU has a lot of $108,790 Leggers and DC $36,710 rice bowls to ring fence. Plus the financial support for the many groups with Federation in the name.
But the only ‘talent’ it brings to the table is constant displays of Uber Patriotism.
This is a party with many members groomed from youth with no experience of the real world and a very limited knowledge of how any sector works except how to be a parasite on the back of the tax payer.
The shocking increase in the number of industrial fatalities, their ostensble domain, undrlines their inepitude.