Political and student activists yesterday criticised the early-morning police raids on their homes as 'an abuse of power and selective prosecution'.
The angry condemnation came after 'Long Hair' Leung Kwok-hung and Christopher Fung Ka-keung, council chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, made a court appearance.
The pair were arrested at their homes yesterday morning and accused of unlawful assembly.
Another student activist, Chris Lo Wai-ming, financial secretary of the student federation, surrendered to the police after he claimed he was 'threatened' by them in a number of phone calls.
Leung said it was the first time police had carried out an arrest at his Kai Yip Estate home in Kowloon Bay without any prior summons or verbal warning.
'It's absolutely abnormal and the police have abused their power,' he said.
'At around 7am, five police officers arrived and told me that they had to arrest me.'
