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Commissioner of Customs and Excise Louise Ho said in an interview with Cable TV on Saturday that the agency would revise its guidelines and step up training for frontline staff to better identify articles that could endanger national security.
When asked whether Apple Daily newspapers or books on military affairs would be considered seditious publications, Ho said it depended on the person’s intention.
“Only if a visitor has no reasonable defence for [carrying] a publication that may be seditious would we notify law enforcement departments,” Ho said in Cantonese.
Asked whether customs would write up a list of publications that were banned or regarded as “soft resistance,” Ho said there was no specific definition of “soft resistance.”
