(Bloomberg) -hong Kong police arrested an eighteen-year-old for suspicion that he had left what they had called “sedative” news in the bathroom, and added to the recent series of national security actions that signal efforts to limit disagreement.
The man is accused of “participating in the writing of sedentary words in the commercial toilet building on three separate occasions,” the government said on Wednesday. The content allegedly caused hatred and dissatisfaction towards the government and stimulated others to resist the law.
This step is the latest in a rush of coercive measures against perceived threats for the Chinese state in the former British colony. Hong Kong is trying to burn his financial center status after his image hit strict pandemic controls and attracting political freedoms.
At the beginning of this month, the police arrested four men for allegedly defending independence for semi -autonomous Chinese territory. In June, local authorities took their first known joint operation with security officers in Beijing to investigate the case of alleged foreign secret agreements.
The police also banned the Taiwanese video game for an alleged call for an armed revolution.
In his Wednesday statement, the Ministry of National Security accused a man for performing “with a random intention of actions or actions that had a random intention”, a crime that has been punished for up to seven years of imprisonment for the first conviction.
The offense is defined in the National Security Protection Regulation, commonly known as Article 23, which was quickly monitored for domestic law last year. In addition to the Beijing Act on the National Security of 2020, in addition to the Beijing National Security Act, the authorities used to detain and imprison dozens of leading democratic activists.
The Hong Kong government did not answer immediately to the request for comment.
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