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Over 50 Hong Kong Activists Arrested for Breaching Security Law, Local Media
Reports

Reuters

   HONG KONG - Over 50 pro-democratic activists in Hong Kong were arrested
   Wednesday for breaking the city's contentious national security law,
   local media reported, in the biggest crackdown yet against the
   democratic opposition under the new law.

   The arrests in the Asian financial hub included well-known democratic
   figures and former lawmakers James To, Lam Cheuk-ting and Lester Shum,
   according to the Democratic Party's Facebook page and public
   broadcaster RTHK.

   Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

   The Democratic Party's Facebook page said police arrested the activists
   for participating in an independently organized ballot last year to
   select democratic candidates for an upcoming legislature election,
   which the Hong Kong government and Beijing warned at the time may
   violate the new law.

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