Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested six people, including a former organizer of the city’s decades-long annual vigil that commemorated China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, for allegedly publishing seditious social media posts
FILE - A woman looks at a document outside the Hong Kong's Final Court of Appeal in Hong Kong on Aug. 22, 2023. Hong Kong police on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, arrested multiple people accused of publishing seditious social media posts, in what were the first publicly known arrests under the city’s new national security law.
“ provoke hatred against the central government, the Hong Kong government and the city's judicial institutions, and aim to incite netizens to organize or participate in illegal activities during a later period,” the police statement said. The new law, known locally as “Article 23,” has expanded the government’s power to deal with future challenges to its rule, punishing treason and insurrection with up to life imprisonment.
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