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Three men arrested for storming Legislative Council as Hong Kong police deny female protester’s accusations of strip-search
- Arrests are first to come from attack on the city’s legislature on July 1, with one suspect accused of criminal damage
- Separately, officers say they have records and CCTV footage that proves woman was not asked to remove all her clothing
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Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested three men for their alleged roles in storming the Legislative Council building – and denied accusations of carrying out a humiliating strip-search on a detained female protester.
The three arrests were the first made for “entering or staying in the chamber area” during the attack the city’s legislature on July 1.
Hours after Hong Kong celebrated the 22nd anniversary of its return from British to Chinese rule, dozens of mostly young protesters ransacked and defaced the complex. They broke more than 60 glass doors and panes, spraying graffiti on the walls, daubing the city’s official emblem with black paint and damaging the chamber’s fire-prevention and security systems.
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Brian Leung Kai-ping, the only protester to deliberately reveal his face in the main Legco chamber, fled the city in July. As many as 60 demonstrators were said to have fled to Taiwan since last month, or were planning to seek shelter there rather than face arrest at home.
Last month, the legislature’s president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen said the cost of repairing the damage done during the storming would be more than HK$40 million (US$5 million).
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