Labourer remanded after admitting he tossed seditious messages from flat

Raymond Wong to be sentenced next month over calling for liberation of Hong Kong and death of judges, police and mainland Chinese

A Hong Kong construction worker has been remanded in custody pending sentencing after pleading guilty to tossing 59 pieces of paper bearing seditious messages from his public rental flat in 2024 and last year.

Raymond Wong Chan-fai, 55, was detained on Thursday morning by police’s National Security Department. He was escorted to West Kowloon Court in the afternoon, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of doing an act with seditious intention under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.

The court heard the defendant wrote offensive messages that called for the murder of police officers, judges and mainland Chinese, whom he described using derogatory language.

He also advocated Hong Kong’s liberation and the defeat of communism while urging others to boycott last year’s Legislative Council election, according to prosecutors.

Kwun Tong district councillor Hsu Yau-wai first reported the case to police after picking up 41 papers bearing slogans on the podium floor of Lai Tat House at On Tat Estate on October 2, 2024.

The messages urged others to kill police to avenge “comrades”. Others depicted judges as dogs and suggested mainlanders did not deserve to die peacefully.