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Human Rights Watch says mass arrests remove ‘the remaining veneer of democracy in the city’
Union of Catholic Asian News, January 6, 2021
John Clancey, a Hong Kong solicitor and American citizen, is led away by police after he was arrested under a new national security law in Hong Kong on Jan. 6. (Photo: Peter Parks/AFP)
The crackdown on Hong Kong’s democratic freedoms intensified today with the arrest of more than 50 people including pro-democracy politicians and campaigners.
Those arrested included every candidate to have run in the unofficial pan-democrat primaries last year and the first known foreigner, an American lawyer, to be arrested under the law.
50 pro-democracy figures arrested in Hong Kong clampdown
Human Rights Watch says mass arrests remove the remaining veneer of democracy in the city UCA News reporter Updated: January 06, 2021 09:06 AM GMT
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John Clancey, a Hong Kong solicitor and American citizen, is led away by police after he was arrested under a new national security law in Hong Kong on Jan. 6. (Photo: Peter Parks/AFP)
The crackdown on Hong Kong s democratic freedoms intensified today with the arrest of more than 50 people including pro-democracy politicians and campaigners.
After a series of early-morning raids, the activists were held under the controversial national security law, which was introduced last year and carries a maximum penalty of life in prison for subversion.