Tag Archives: security law

53 pro-democracy activists nabbed in Hong Kong under security law

53 pro-democracy activists

Hong Kong police said Wednesday they have arrested 53 pro-democracy activists for alleged subversion under the national security law, in the largest such roundup under the territory’s six-month-old law. Former lawmakers, including Wu Chi-wai, former chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party, are among those arrested in connection with an unofficial primary by the pro-democracy […]

Violence erupts in new Paris protest against security law

new Paris protest

Violence erupted in Paris on Saturday for the second consecutive weekend at a mass protest against a new security law, with demonstrators clashing with police, vehicles set alight and shop windows smashed. The weekly nationwide protests are becoming a major headache for President Emmanuel Macron’s government, with tensions intensified by the beating of a black music producer by […]