Hong Kong: Arrests and jail time for pro-democracy councillors and activists


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Taiwan has joined the condemnation of the arrest of two pan-democratic Hong Kong district councillors which took place on 22 November. Yuen Long district councillor Henry Wong Pak-yu and Kowloon City councillor Timothy Lee Hin-long were arrested under the controversial national security law imposed by China. Also on 23 November, Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Ivan Lam and Agney Chow, pleaded guilty to charges relating to protests outside the police station last year. Series of arrests The national security law has given grounds for the Hong Kong police to arbitrarily arrest many politicians, activists, and pro-democracy figures. The law, imposed...