Hong Kong police arrest Tiananmen vigil organisers

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By Su Xinqi and Yan Zhao Hong Kong, China -- Hong Kong police on Wednesday arrested four members of the group behind the city's Tiananmen Square vigils, a day after they refused to cooperate with a national security investigation. HongKong

Hong Kong police on Wednesday arrested four members of the group behind the city’s Tiananmen Square vigils, a day after they refused to cooperate with a national security investigation.

Three other members of the group — Simon Leung, Sean Tang and Chan To-wai — were arrested on Wednesday morning, the alliance said in a statement.Police confirmed that they arrested three men and one woman for “not providing information” according to the national security law. The alliance also rejected the accusation that they are foreign agents, saying they are a domestic group that campaigns for Hong Kongers.

That office has only issued two previous such statements — following the arrests of media tycoon Jimmy Lai and law professor Benny Tai — even though more than 120 people have been arrested under the security law.China is currently remoulding Hong Kong in its own authoritarian image. Former Hong Kong lawmaker Nathan Law, a democracy campaigner who fled to London after the imposition of the security law, said the arrests were “absolutely absurd and unacceptable”.

 

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