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About 50 Hong Kong activists arrested under new security law

by Zen Soo
| January 5, 2021 9:09 PM

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police arrested about 50 former lawmakers and pro-democracy activists Wednesday for allegedly violating the new national security law by participating in unofficial election primaries for the territory's legislature last year.

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