Briton Jailed for China Protest
Matt Pearce, an English teacher living in Hong Kong, has been sentenced to six months in jail for staging a protest against China’s human rights record. From the BBC:
He hung banners on the Tsing Ma Bridge on 8 August last year – the opening day of the Beijing Olympics.
Pearce was found guilty of causing a public nuisance earlier this month but was cleared of a common assault charge.
In 2006, the veteran activist, who founded an organisation called International Action, was sentenced to 21 days in prison after dressing as Spiderman and scaling a giant television screen in the Central district of Hong Kong on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square killings.
Origin: , BBC
POSTED COMMENTS: 4 Responses
Causing a public nuisance?! That is so backward, so 1984.
Serve him well.When in rome do as the roman does. Another thing this guy forget that Hongkong is not colony of Britain and being british doesn’t mean he is above law
Justice is served. No more British political activity in the SAR. Who do they think they are? If they want to hang their Union Jack hang it back home in England and we are no longer their fucking colony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, fine- then no more Chinese brownshirts marching in support of authoritarianism abroad.