‘Will proceed to withstand’: Pro-democracy chief Joshua Wong arrested in Hong Kong over ‘illegal meeting’

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The arrest of the territory’s most high-profile dissident is the latest in a string of arrests of government critics and comes after China imposed a sweeping new national security law in Hong Kong in late June. Wong was arrested for “unlawful assembly” over a 2019 demonstration against a government ban on face masks that were imposed before the coronavirus pandemic, his lawyer said. Later Thursday the European Union criticised the move, saying it was “the latest in a troubling series of arrests of pro-democracy activists since the summer”. Wong, 23, who now faces three separate court cases, said after being...