Hong Kong police arrest operator of prisoner support group over allegedly seditious books
Verified: 2 outlets have reported this story since Nov 5.
Hong Kong national security police have arrested an operator of a local prisoner support group on suspicion of importing seditious publications, days after the group revealed that customs had seized dozens of books it had ordered from Taiwan. Police said officers carried out an enforcement operation in Mong Kok on Thursday morning, arresting a local man, 34, on suspicion of “importing a publication that has a seditious intention”, an offence under the Safeguarding National Security...
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same arrest over allegedly seditious book imports by Hong Kong national security police, adding detail that the man is a prisoner support group operator, and the two do not conflic
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