As pro-democracy protests start up again, more than 30 arrests have been made, some for violating the new, nebulous security law
A police officer raises his pepper spray handgun as he detains a man during a march against the national security law at the anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China from Britain in Hong Kong on July 1 2020. Picture: REUTERS/TYRONE SIUHong Kong police made their first arrests under sweeping national security legislation that has dramatically curtailed dissent in the city — less than 24 hours after Chinese legislators handed it down.
The law came into force just ahead of the July 1 anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997, a symbolic occasion usually marked by mass protests against Beijing. An appeals panel upheld an unprecedented police ban against a Civil Human Rights Front rally planned for Wednesday, but a few hundred protesters came out in the afternoon in Causeway Bay.
Demonstrators who had gathered in Causeway Bay tried marching towards Admiralty — the neighbourhood home to the city’s legislature and central government offices that saw some of last year’s biggest protests — but were stopped after police blocked the road. “To a lot of Hong Kongers, this may be the last time we can gather to protest against the regime,” said a freelancer on Lockhart Road, who gave his name as Law. “We don’t know if there will be any more opportunities for us to go on the streets for the same cause. Maybe we won’t be able to protest ever again for the rest of our lives.
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