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Dozens of Hong Kong dissidents were charged with subversion on Sunday in the largest use yet of Beijing's sweeping new national security law, as authorities seek to cripple the finance hub's democracy movement.
Police arrested 55 of the city's best-known pro-democracy campaigners in a series of dawn raids last month.
On Sunday, 47 were charged with one count each of "conspiracy to commit subversion" - one of the new national security crimes - with police saying the group would appear in court on Monday morning.
Hong Kong legal scholar and democracy activist Benny Tai Yiu-ting (R) prepares to report to the Ma On Shan Police Station in Hong Kong, China, 28 February 2021.