American lawyer arrested in Hong Kong crackdown
06 January 2021
John Clancey believed to be first foreign national detained under new security law
The anti-National Security Law protest in Hong Kong on 24 May PaulWong/Shutterstock John Clancey, a partner at Ho Tse Wai & Partners, has been arrested by Hong Kong police, who also raided the offices of his law firm in Central, Hong Kong’s business district. The American human rights lawyer was arrested as part of a crackdown on pro-democracy activism, which saw more than fifty individuals arrested for alleged subversion under the terms of Hong Kong’s controversial national security law, which was imposed by Beijing on the Special Administrative Region last year.