Media tycoon Jimmy Lai was among 14 democracy campaigners arrested by Hong Kong police in relation to events that took place last year
Police in Hong Kong carried out a sweeping operation against high-profile democracy campaigners on Saturday, arresting 14 activists on charges related to massive protests that rocked the Asian financial hub last year.
Hong Kong media tycoon and founder of Apple Daily newspaper Jimmy Lai leaves the Kowloon City police station in Hong Kong on February 28, 2020The group also included former lawmakers Martin Lee, Margaret Ng, Albert Ho, Leung Kwok-hung and Au Nok-hin, who are accused of organising and taking part in unlawful assemblies in August and October, according to the police.
"The arrestees were charged or will be charged with related crimes," superintendent Lam Wing-ho said.Media boss Lai was previously detained in February over his participation in another August rally that was banned by police for security reasons.Hong Kong was shaken by widespread and sometimes violent street protests in 2019 sparked by a now-abandoned proposal to allow extraditions to the authoritarian Chinese mainland and its opaque judicial system.
The protests and clashes with police have since died down, partly due to exhaustion and arrests but also because of the emergence of the deadly coronavirus.
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