HONG KONG: Hong Kong police said on Saturday (Aug 31) that two people were arrested for sedition under a new national security law, accusing them of spreading hatred against Chinese and local authorities.
A police holds a cordon line outside the District Court ahead of the verdict in a landmark sedition trial against two former editors of now-shuttered online media Stand News, in Hong Kong , China on Aug 29, 2024. HONG KONG : Hong Kong police said on Saturday that two people were arrested for sedition under a new national security law, accusing them of spreading hatred against Chinese and local authorities.
Hong Kong media reports said the arrests were made in connection to a note widely circulated on social media this week after a university professor was killed on railway tracks. Police said the woman was suspected of"publishing fraudulent 'last words' of the deceased in relation to a recent suicide case".It is Hong Kong's second national security law and follows the one imposed by Beijing in 2020 after huge, sometimes violent pro-democracy protests a year earlier.
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