SCMP | Reversed Front: Bonfire
Individuals who downloaded the app could be considered in possession of a seditious publication, contravening domestic security legislation, the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, police said. The force added that those who provided money or financial help to the game’s developer, including making in-app purchases, with the intent to fund acts of secession or subversion of state power, also risk committing an offence under the national security law.