Hundreds of Hong Kong national security police have raided the office of an online pro-democracy media outlet and arrested six people, including senior staff, on suspicion of “conspiracy to publish seditious publications.”
The raid further raises concerns about freedom of speech and that of the media in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with the promise that a wide range of individual rights would be protected.
But recent court judgments have freed authorities to use powers conferred by the new legislation to deploy previously sparsely used colonial-era laws including the Crime Ordinance, which covers sedition.and that it does not curb rights and freedoms. Critics say the legislation is a tool to quash dissent and has set the global financial hub on an authoritarian path., arresting executives on charges of “collusion with a foreign country.
The June announcement said senior barrister and former democratic legislator Margaret Ng, pop singer Denise Ho and four others resigned from its board, with two founding directors, Tony Tsoi and former chief editor Chung Pui-kuen, remaining.
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