HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong s legislature unanimously voted on Thursday to overhaul district level elections by drastically reducing directly elected seats, a move critics said removed some of the last vestiges of democratic freedoms in the China-ruled city.
An Australian lawyer with a
bounty on his head from the Hong Kong authorities, said on
Thursday he was being pursued for exercising my democratic
rights in a crackdown on free speech. .
Police in Hong Kong arrested a man on Thursday suspected of links to pro-democracy activists based abroad, picking him up at the city's international airport a day after arresting four others for various national security offences.
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong national security police on Wednesday arrested four men it accused of supporting overseas dissidents and of advocating for independence from China, two days after issuing warrants and bounties against several foreign-based activists.