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One of the defendants spoke in court Saturday quoting U.S. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. stating, “a riot is the language of the unheard,” and that she didn’t regret her contribution to the children’s books.
A series of children's books published in Hong Kong that depict the conflicts between "good" sheep and "evil" wolves are aimed at inciting separatism and hatred towards mainland China, prosecutors have argued in opening a sedition trial against five speech therapists behind the publications. Nearly one year after the five suspects were denied bail, the trial began in the city's.
Hong Kong-based speech therapists are on trial for sedition after publishing a series of children's books depicting the island city as a village of sheep, and Beijing as wolves.