May 11, 2022 Meet the Middle East

Hong Kong: Arrests of activists, including 90-year-old cardinal, a ‘shocking escalation’ of repression

Responding to the arrests under Hong Kong’s national security law of four trustees of the defunct 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director Erwin van der Borght said: “Even by Hong Kong’s recent standards of worsening repression, these arrests represent a shocking escalation. Some of the city’s most respected pro-democracy figures, whose activism ..
Source: Albawaba
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