A 30-year-old engineer was found guilty of inciting subversion, amongst other charges, on Wednesday (September 3) by using a telegram channel to teach netizens how to build explosives and assault the police during the 2019 protests.
In the District Court ruling, Judge Winnie Lau Yee-wan found the 30-year-old air-conditioning engineer Hui Chi-kit guilty on two counts of “conspiring and soliciting to commit harm and making explosives,” citing he had set up a Telegram channel to publish seditious information.
Hui was charged with setting up and administrating a channel named “Practical Knowledge of Engineering” in 2019, with over 2,200 subscribers.
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Source: The Standard