A Hong Kong construction worker has pleaded guilty to distributing seditious messages by tossing papers from his flat. He has been remanded in custody pending sentencing.

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...