A 55-year-old man has pleaded guilty to making and distributing “seditious” material, including those calling for a boycott of Legislative elections “only for patriots”. last year.
Raymond Wong, a construction worker, was charged and brought to the West Kowloon Magistrates Courts on Thursday afternoon.
He was arrested by the national security police on April 21, a Govt STATEMENT said on Thursday. His arrest was not previously known to the public, as police did not release information about him at the time.
Wong was charged with two counts of “seditiously committing an act or acts having a seditious intent”, an offense under Hong Kong’s national security law, also known as Article 23.
According to a court document, Wong allegedly made “sheets of paper written with statements” and threw them “into a public space” from a 12th-floor apartment in On Tat Estate, a public housing estate in Kwun Tong. The first charge of sedition was dated October 2, 2024, and the second was dated December 5, 2025.
Local media reported that on October 2, 2024, a Kwun Tong district councilor found pieces of paper with phrases including “blow up the corrupt cops” scattered on the estate’s podium. The district councilor called the police and handed them 41 sheets of paper.
On December 5 last year, two days before the “patriots-only” Legislative Council election, a staff member at the property’s property management company found slips of paper reading “liberate Hong Kong, don’t vote” also on the property’s podium.
The police were called and 16 pieces of paper with rebellious phrases were seized. Wong’s fingerprints were found on two of them.
Wong’s case was adjourned to June 9 for sentencing to await his background report, a social welfare report and a psychological report.
Rebellion is punishable by up to seven years in prison. If the defendant is found to have cooperated with an “outside force” during the commission of the crime, he faces a maximum of 10 years behind bars.
However, prison sentences handed down in the magistrates’ court are limited to two or three years where a defendant is convicted of more than one offence.
The maximum sentence for sedition was increased in March 2024, when lawmakers passed Article 23. Before that, it was punishable by up to two years, when sedition fell under a colonial-era ordinance.
