Hong Kong students arrested for ‘advocating terrorism’


Hong Kong’s national security police unit’s senior superintendent Steve Li announces the arrest of four men from University of Hong Kong for ‘advocating terrorism’. – EPA pic, August 18, 2021.

FOUR student leaders from Hong Kong’s top university were arrested today for “advocating terrorism”, police said.

A controversial student union statement following a lone wolf attack on a police officer last month sparked the arrests, according to senior superintendent Steve Li, from the city’s national security police unit.


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