Hong Kong: Police Action Against 14K T-shirt

Posted 5 November 2007 9:55 GMT

Countries	Hong Kong (China)
Topics	Freedom of Speech
Languages	Chinese

Hong Kong (China)

Last week police took action and arrested 18 people of a design house which produced a T-shirt with a “14K” logo because 14K is a local triad group. The designer, Douglas Young claimed that the idea came from “14K gold”. The news had outraged local blogsphere. Cow writes a blogpost to list out numerous occasions that “14K” would be used [zh]. Diumanpark commented that there were too much moral judgement in Hong Kong society [zh].

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