Lai says police did not wait for his lawyers to arrive at his office and took away documents. FMTNews Police Raid JimmyLai
HONG KONG: Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai said police raided his private offices earlier on Thursday, months after he was arrested on suspicion of violating the city’s national security law.
“They just wanted to get something to go against me,” Lai said outside a court, where he went for a hearing over unlawful assembly charges related to this year’s June 4 commemoration of China’s bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.Lai’s aide Mark Simon said on Twitter police did not leave any names or contacts for the 14 officers who searched the office.
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