Man jailed for 10 months over seditious messages thrown from Hong Kong flat

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a construction worker to 10 months in prison for throwing dozens of sheets of paper bearing seditious messages from his flat in 2024 and last year.Raymond Wong Chan-fai, 55, told Chief Magistrate Victor So Wai-tak in mitigation on Tuesday that he had written offensive messages targeting police, judges and mainland Chinese residents on the papers and thrown them out of his window to “let off steam”.He said he did not have any seditious intent when distributing the papers from his 13th-floor flat at On Tat Estate, Kwun Tong.His lawyer said Wong lost his full-time job and had been working part-time following the anti-government protests in 2019 and subsequently the pandemic.“[Wong] built up resentment but did not know how to control the anger,” the lawyer said.The court heard the defendant wrote messages calling for the murder of police officers, judges and mainland residents.