Hong Kong protests: court appearance delayed as local radio personality facing sedition charges hospitalised
- The 52-year-old best known as ‘Giggs’ sought medical attention on Sunday night after reportedly feeling unwell ahead of scheduled hearing
- The charges are tied to online radio programmes last year which sought to raise funds for teens involved in 2019’s social unrest to study in Taiwan
Prosecutors revealed that Edmund Wan Yiu-sing, better known as “Giggs”, a host on the internet radio channel D100, reported feeling unwell and sought medical attention on Sunday night.
In his absence, Chief Magistrate Victor So Wai-tak adjourned the case to Thursday, or as soon as Wan is discharged from Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan, where he was expected to stay for at least two nights.
Wan launched the online radio show A Thousand Fathers and Mothers: Taiwan Education Aid last February, using it to discuss topics in support of the 2019 anti-government protest movement and to call on viewers to donate funds for the education and living expenses of young Hong Kong protesters fleeing to Taiwan.
Wan was accused of having the intention “to bring into hatred or contempt or to incite disaffection” against the Beijing and Hong Kong governments, according to West Kowloon Court documents.
