Five speech therapists in Hong Kong

Political Prisoners

LAI MAN-LING 黎雯齡

Age at Arrest: 25

Chairman, General Union of the Hong Kong Speech Therapists

melody YEUNG YAT-YEE 楊逸意

Age at Arrest: 26

Vice-Chairman, General Union of the Hong Kong Speech Therapists

SIDNEY NG HAU-YI 吳巧怡

Age at Arrest: 28

Union Secretary, General Union of the Hong Kong Speech Therapists

samuel CHAN YUEN-SUM 陳源森

Age at Arrest: 24

Treasurer, General Union of the Hong Kong Speech Therapists

FONG TSZ-HO 方梓皓

Age at Arrest: 25

General Council Commissioner, General Union of the Hong Kong Speech Therapists

Charges, Incidents & sentences:

  • Charge: Conspiracy to print, publish, distribute, display and/or reproduce seditious publications

  • Incident: Publication of a series of children’s books depicting a “sheep village” under attack from “wolves”, which “were said to have alluded to the 2019 anti-extradition bill unrest, the detention of 12 Hong Kong fugitives by the Chinese authorities, and a strike staged by Hong Kong medics at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak.” (HKFP)

  • Sentencing: 19 months’ imprisonment

Other Prisoners

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