HONG KONG, May 28 — Hong Kong national security police arrested six people across the city today under a new security law for alleged seditious intent, including a pro-democracy...
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Security Secretary Chris Tang told reporters the six were suspected of using a Facebook page to “advocate hatred” against the governments in Hong Kong and China, which took back control of the former British colony in 1997, and against the judiciary. The arrests come despite criticism that an ongoing crackdown since 2020 that has silenced dissent and shut down liberal media outlets and NGOs has sapped Hong Kong’s dynamism and hurt the city’s economic prospects.
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