HONG KONG, July 3 — Hong Kong police today brought their first charges under a sweeping new national security law that Beijing imposed on the city earlier this week. “A 24-year-old local man has been charged with one count of inciting others for secession and one count of terrorist...
Journalists wait outside West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts, after a motorcyclist accused of riding into a group of policemen during the protest, while carrying a flag calling for the liberation of Hong Kong, has been charged under the newly passed nation
“A 24-year-old local man has been charged with one count of inciting others for secession and one count of terrorist activity,” the police said in a brief statement.
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