This is the first time police use extraterritorial power to go after activists outside the city. FMTNews
HK pro-independence activist Wayne Chan is removed by police from the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in 2018.
“Hong Kong police officially ordered the arrests of six trouble-makers who have fled overseas,” CCTV state television said.“I hope… that all of you can stand strong to resist the white terror rather than succumb to self-censorship,” he added in a Facebook post. It would be the first time the city’s police have used the extraterritorial power in the new law to go after activists who are not in the territory.
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