01/11/2021 at 5:09 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
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.