Hong Kong national security police arrest 3 members of activist group Student Politicism
- Opposition group’s Wong Yat-chin and Chan Chi-sum were picked up at their homes at about 6.40am, according to the organisation’s Facebook page
- Police also search the group’s warehouse in Kwai Chung, seizing boxes of surgical masks, books, shower gel and other items
Hong Kong national security police arrested three student members of an opposition political group on Monday morning for conspiracy to incite subversion against state power through its street booths and social media.
After arresting the trio at their homes, officers searched a warehouse in the Wah Sing Industrial Building in Kwai Chung where they seized evidence including propaganda materials, computers and surgical masks as well as a large amount of goods intended for inmates behind bars, such as snacks, books and daily necessities.
Wong was taken to the warehouse for the search and later escorted out of the building at about 10.40am to a waiting car. Officers then searched the group’s shop, Bat Ji, in Hong Kong Commercial Centre in Mong Kok.
Senior Superintendent Steve Li Kwai-wah of the force’s National Security Department accused the group, which was set up in May last year, of repeatedly spreading messages to incite subversion and hatred against both the central and Hong Kong governments. Student Politicism also urged people not to obey the law, he said.
