Man to appear in court for threatening posters

A 41-year-old man has been charged with displaying seditious publications for putting up posters insulting and threatening three national security judges who handled Hong Kong’s first national security case.

The man was arrested by officers from New Territories North police district’s crime unit last Friday and will appear in the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts tomorrow afternoon.

He allegedly put up posters that insulted and threatened judges Anthea Pang Po-kam, Esther Toh Lye-ping and Wilson Chan Ka-shun outside a kindergarten at Tin Ping Estate in Sheung Shui and in a public washroom at the High Court on July 28 and July 30.

Police officers also found he possessed a number of posters with seditious intent. The case was then followed by the police’s national security department.

The three judges jailed the city’s first national security defendant Leon Tong Ying-kit for nine years on July 30.

Former waiter Tong, 24, was convicted of inciting secession and terrorism for riding his motorcycle into a group of police officers in Wan Chai while flying a flag with the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of the times” on July 1 last year.