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Hong Kong housewife gets 3 months in psychiatric institution over seditious posters

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Friday, October 16, 2026 at 7:32 AM · 1 min read
Hong Kong housewife gets 3 months in psychiatric institution over seditious posters — South China Morning Post, Lafayette Business news
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An elderly woman who pasted materials containing pro-independence slogans and Hong Kong’s colonial-era flag outside her flat has been sentenced to three months in a maximum-security psychiatric institution for displaying seditious publications. West Kowloon Court ordered housewife Yang Chau-ki, 62, to undergo mandatory psychiatric treatment at the Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre on Friday. She was charged with knowingly displaying publications with seditious intent under Hong Kong’s Article 23...

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