Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested six people for allegedly publishing seditious social media posts

Hong Kong police arrested 6 people including Chow Hang-tung (鄒幸彤), a former leader of the group behind the annual vigil commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre, for allegedly publishing “seditious” social media posts, in what were the first publicly known arrests under the city’s new national security law.

🇨🇳 🇭🇰 Secretary for Security Chris Tang alleged that beginning in Apr, the 6 used a Facebook page to anonymously publish the posts which targeted a “sensitive date.”

The authorities have not detailed the content of the posts. But the page started publishing a series of posts to mark the upcoming 35th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown, a politically sensitive topic in Hong Kong and China, on Apr 30.

Tang alleged that the group made the posts with the intent to incite dissatisfaction or even hatred against the 🇨🇳 central government, the Hong Kong government and the judiciary, and that the posts also aimed to encourage netizens to organize activities “endangering national security”.