Hong Kong national security law: fourth member of student activist group arrested after handing herself in
- Student Politicism spokeswoman Wong Yuen-lam, 19, arrested in Mong Kok after she surrendered to authorities on Tuesday evening, police source says
- Three others were charged with conspiracy to incite subversion of state power and have appeared in West Kowloon Court
Hong Kong national security police have arrested a fourth member of a student activist group after she turned herself in following subversion charges being laid against the other three.
Student Politicism spokeswoman Wong Yuen-lam, 19, was arrested in Mong Kok after she surrendered to the authorities on Tuesday evening, a police source said on Wednesday.
The group’s convenor Wong Yat-chin and former secretary Chan Chi-sum, both 20, and ex-spokeswoman Chu Wai-ying, 18, were arrested on Monday by national security officers, who also raided Student Politicism’s warehouse in the Wah Sing Industrial Building in Kwai Chung.
The court heard that Wong Yuen-lam, who was named as a wanted person at the hearing, conspired with the trio to incite others to commit acts to overthrow or undermine “the basic system of the People’s Republic of China”, as well as “the body of central power of the People’s Republic of China or the body of power of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”.