Nearly all of the city’s prominent pro-democracy voices have been arrested or forced into exile. By January 11, 2021 Advertisement Since the imposition of the National Security Law, most of Hong Kong’s prominent democratic activists have either been arrested or gone into exile. That includes Joshua Wong, who was sent to prison in December on charges of illegal assembly, and Nathan Law, who left Hong Kong soon after the law was implemented in July. On January 6, with global attention focused on the messy aftermath of the U.S. elections, the Hong Kong police arrested 53 prominent political activists, searched 76 places, and froze $200,000 of assets under the National Security Law. Those arrested where charge with subversion for the alleged crime of organizing and participating in the democratic primaries for the postponed 2020 Legislative Council election, originally scheduled for September 2020.