The Straits Times reports
HONG KONG • A Hong Kong Internet radio host was arrested yesterday under a little-used colonial-era sedition law that the authorities have begun to wield against Beijing’s critics.
Officers from the police’s national security department arrested 52-year-old Wan Yiu-sing on a charge of “seditious intent”, according to a police statement.
The authorities did not disclose what Wan had said or did that was potentially seditious.
The radio personality, better known by his DJ name Giggs, has hosted programmes discussing anti-government demonstrations and previously called for donations to support young Hong Kongers who have fled to nearby Taiwan.
Hong Kong’s sedition law is separate from a sweeping national security law that Beijing imposed on the city last summer in a bid to stamp out dissent. Instead, it dates back to the mid-19th century, during British colonial rule.
It remained on the books after the 1997 handover to China, but was never used in a city that has enjoyed political freedoms unseen on the mainland.
