Engineers set up a channel for sharing engineering knowledge on the communication program Telegram, but the content is to teach people how to make explosives, and how to use walking sticks to transform into "dog-beating sticks", as well as teach people to make landmines and hydrogen bombs.
Engineers claim to be used only for engineering technical exchanges.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of incitement earlier, and the case was sentenced in the District Court today (26th). Deputy Judge Liu Qiyun pointed out that the channel used by the defendant has more than 20,000 subscriptions, which is a large number. 42 months.
Offenses in 2019-2020
Defendant Xu Zhijie (29 years old) pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to incite others to intentionally injure others and conspiracy to incite others to manufacture explosives, alleging that from July 2, 2019 to May 28, 2020, he conspired to incite Telegram users to deliberately incite Injuring people, making explosives, setting fires, damaging other people's property; and inciting users to set up roadblocks, destroy facilities, cut off water and electricity, destroy broadband Internet service facilities, destroy street lights, and interfere with the normal services of the MTR.
The channel name is Practical Engineering Knowledge Sharing
The facts of the case allege that the defendant established a "Practical Engineering Knowledge Sharing Channel" on Telegram in July 2019, claiming to be used to share various interesting engineering knowledge. As of May 28, 2020, the channel had a total of 22,934 subscribers.
The channel has 6 administrator accounts, 3 of which are operated by the defendants.
The channel has repeatedly sent out messages against the police
During the incident, a total of 2,064 messages were released, of which 22 were messages inciting others to do personal harm, and most of them were directed at the police, including teaching people to modify their climbing sticks to make "dog-beating sticks", setting fish silk on the ground as traps, The police dropped petrol bombs, removed the cover of the road, and laid paper traps on it to cause the police to fall into the pit.
Another 26 messages teach people about making explosives, including landmines, sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, hydrogen bombs, chlorine bombs, grenade launchers, and smoke bombs.
After the defendant was arrested, he said that he just wanted to share practical engineering knowledge, and the content was reprinted by others.
Case number: DCCC 1105/2020
The TG channel teaches dog-beating sticks and various explosives. The engineer said that the technical exchange pleaded guilty to incitement and sentenced an unemployed man to retweet the incitement. The official said that he was talking to himself. The administrator believes that the seditious officer denounced the risk of increasing the spread of the epidemic. He was imprisoned for half a year for publishing seditious remarks on the TG and hiding 3 sabres. He was accused of being an unemployed person, and he still stayed in the hospital and did not appear in court. Until August, 3 men were charged with conspiracy to incite to injure a police officer involved in TG propaganda and assassination. The prosecution said that one or more people were arrested.