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About 110 teachers, 3,600 students arrested over social incidents in Hong Kong since June last year

About 110 teachers or staffs from educational institutions and nearly 3,600 students have been arrested over social incidents in Hong Kong from June 2019 to May 2020, Hong Kong’s education chief said.Answering questions raised by a member of HKSAR's Legislative Council in a written reply on Wednesday, Kevin Yeung, secretary for education of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said that among the people arrested during the period in relation to the social incidents, about 10 of them were staff members of post-secondary institutions and about 100 of them were staff or teachers of primary and secondary schools.“Among the students arrested in the same period, about 2,000 were from post-secondary institutions and the remaining about 1,600 were aged under 18 who we