Six democracy activists including US citizen wanted in Hong Kong: state media


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August 1, 2020 Hong Kong (Bioreports) Hong Kong police have issued arrest warrants for six overseas-based democracy activists who are alleged to have breached the city’s newly imposed national security law, according to Chinese state media. The six include United States citizen and resident Samuel Chu and Nathan Law, a former Hong Kong lawmaker and prominent pro-democracy campaigner who fled the city and is now living in London, according to the report. The issuing of the warrant appears to mark the first time that authorities have used the new national security law, imposed by Beijing on June 30, to target...