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Hong Kong Activists Arrested Under Chinese National Security Law

HeadlineOct 28, 2020

A teenage activist in Hong Kong was detained by police Tuesday near the U.S. Consulate, where he was planning to seek asylum. Nineteen-year-old Tony Chung helped found the pro-independence group Studentlocalism and had been arrested previously under Hong Kong’s new national security law. Two of his associates were also detained Tuesday.

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