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National security law: University of Hong Kong student leaders probed over police attack motion to be ‘placed on watch list, intercepted if they try to leave city’
- Dozens of national security police raided offices of University of Hong Kong student union and campus media on Friday
- Source says no arrests are expected at this stage over controversial motion as police are still gathering evidence
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University of Hong Kong student leaders being investigated under the national security law for passing a resolution that “appreciated the sacrifice” of a man who stabbed a police officer before killing himself will be put on a watch list and intercepted if they try to leave the city, the Post has learned.
A police source said on Saturday that law enforcement officers would stop those involved in the motion – passed last week by the HKU Students’ Union Council but subsequently withdrawn after an outcry – if they attempted to leave Hong Kong at a border checkpoint. But he refused to reveal who would be placed on the list.
Dozens of national security police raided the offices of the student union and campus media on Friday, three days after university management severed all ties with the body and accused its leaders of “serious misconduct”.
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The source said no arrests were expected at this stage as police were still gathering evidence, adding that officers were investigating if anyone had committed the act of advocating terrorism or inciting terrorist activity under the Beijing-imposed national security law.
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National security police raid university student union over support of man who stabbed officer
National security police raid university student union over support of man who stabbed officer
The legislation, which came into effect in June last year, outlaws acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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