Police’s National Security Department today arrested a man and a woman, aged 41 and 28, on suspicion of committing an act or acts with seditious intention, contravening Section 24 of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.
 
Police conducted searches at the arrested people’s residences with a court warrant, where light boxes, materials for making light boxes and relevant electronic communication devices were seized. The arrestees are now being detained for investigation.
 
The investigation revealed that the arrested woman was suspected of publishing fraudulent “last words” of the deceased in relation to a recent suicide case, while the arrested man was suspected of persistently placing so-called “memorial light boxes” in various places, with contents provoking hatred towards the central authorities and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.
 
An enforcement action is ongoing.
 
Police remind the public that committing an act or acts with seditious intention is a serious offence, and offenders are liable to seven years’ imprisonment on first conviction.
 
Members of the public are urged not to defy the law.