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Hong Kong’s national security police arrest man with suspected ties to pro-independence group over seditious messages posted online

  • Officers stopped man at hotel in Hung Hom and seized electronic communication devices, force spokesman says
  • Police insider says man has ties to Hong Kong Independence Party

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Anti-government protesters stage a rally at the British consulate in Admiralty in 2019. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
Danny Mok

Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested a man suspected to be tied to a pro-independence group for allegedly posting seditious messages online.

Officers stopped the man at a hotel in Hung Hom on Tuesday morning and seized electronic communication devices believed to have been used to deliver the messages, a force spokesman on Wednesday said.

He was arrested after an investigation found he had published allegedly seditious content and launched crowdfunding activities for “military purposes” on social media platforms beginning in September 2019, according to police.

Demonstrators take part in a rally outside the British consulate in Admiralty in 2019 calling for the Sino-British Joint Declaration to be scrapped. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
Demonstrators take part in a rally outside the British consulate in Admiralty in 2019 calling for the Sino-British Joint Declaration to be scrapped. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

A force insider said the man had ties to the Hong Kong Independence Party.

The localist group was created in 2014 and registered as a political party in Britain in 2015, but it was de-registered in November 2018.

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