Hong Kong police arrest four members of Hong Kong pro-independence group
With Beijing’s draconian national security law in power, Hong Kong’s new police unit arrested four student members of a pro-independence group, aged 16 to 21 in a first ever crackdown on anti-government activists.Senior Superintendent Steve Li Kwai-wah of the National Security Department under the police force said the group had declared the establishment of a body to promote pro-independence political ideals “using any means possible” and build a “Republic of Hong Kong”.Studentlocalism was a pro-independence group that was disbanded on June 30, hours before the Beijing-imposed national security law came into effect.The national security law, which came into effect ahead of July 1, sets up a vast security apparatus in the territory and gives Beijing broad powers to crack down on a variety