Teen who promoted ‘Hong Kong Parliament’ gets 1 year in jail for sedition
Court finds Bettie Lan, 19, had rallied support, filmed promotional videos and encouraged ‘election’ of self-styled parliament-in-exile in Canada
Chief Magistrate Victor So Wai-tak said the defendant had contributed materially to the dissemination of the political group’s radical and ill-conceived objectives by filming two promotional videos and encouraging a friend to vote in the election.
“The entities concerned were established as foreign bases, with the purpose of propagating hostile sentiments and opposition to the People’s Republic of China on a global scale,” he said.
“The entire operation was designed to disseminate distorted portrayals of Chinese sovereignty and of [Hong Kong] within the international community, to malign the Chinese authority and to mislead foreign states and their citizens into accepting extremist ideology.”