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On March 20, 2023, a Hong Kong court sentenced three people to prison for sedition. Police had arrested them in January, during and after a raid on a book fair in Mong Kok, for the purported crime of selling self-published books about the city’s 2019 protest movement. All three pleaded guilty, received sentences of between five and ten months and pledged to refrain from such
“This deliberate campaign to intimidate and silence individuals . is a further step in the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong," said State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller.