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