A Hong Kong construction worker has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to two counts of sedition. Raymond Wong Chan-fai, 55, admitted to tossing 59 pieces of paper bearing offensive messages from his flat in 2024 and last year. He faces sentencing next month.
Raymond Wong Chan-fai was detained on Thursday morning by police’s National Security Department. He appeared at West Kowloon Court later that day and pleaded guilty to two counts of doing an act with seditious intention under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.
Prosecutors said the messages called for the murder of police officers, judges and mainland Chinese. They also urged Hong Kong’s liberation, the defeat of communism and a boycott of last year’s Legislative Council election.
Kwun Tong district councillor Hsu Yau-wai reported the case after finding 41 of the papers at On Tat Estate on October 2, 2024. Wong will be sentenced next month.