Former convenor of pro-independence group Studentlocalism Tony Chung Hon-lam arrives at West Kowloon Magistrates‘ Courts after he was arrested under the national security law in Hong Kong, China October 15, 2020.
Tony Chung, 19, appeared in court on Thursday charged with secession, money laundering and conspiring to publish seditious content, two days after he was arrested by plainclothes police in a Hong Kong coffee shop opposite the US consulate. Tony Chung was arrested on Tuesday under the controversial legislation that punishes what Beijing broadly defines as secession, sedition, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in jail.Like other anti-government organisations, Studentlocalism disbanded before Beijing imposed the national security law on China's most free city on June 30.
Beijing said the national security law was necessary to bring stability to the former British colony after a year of sometimes violent anti-government protests.
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