Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper says the outspoken head of its publishing group, Jimmy Lai, is being held by police over his participation in a protest march in August that was part of the territory's months-long pro-democracy movement.
FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2018, file photo, pro-democracy candidate Lee Cheuk-yan shouts slogans next to an election poster of establishment candidate Chan Hoi-yan during a by-election campaign at the voting day in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper said Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, the vice chairman of the opposition Labor Party, Lee, and others were detained by police in connection with the Aug.
The paper said Lai, the founder of Next Media, was picked up from his home by officers at around 7 a.m. and taken to a police station in the Kowloon neighborhood. Organizers called off the action after the police banned it, but hundreds of thousands of people defied the order and filled the streets in several areas of the Asian financial hub. Protesters threw gasoline bombs at government headquarters and set fires in the streets, while police stormed a subway car and hit passengers with batons and pepper spray in some of the most violent scenes up to that point in the protest movement.
Police arrested thousands during the protest movement that began in June but fizzled out toward the end of the year amid harsher tactics by authorities. Still prison sentences have been against many on charges including rioting and possessing offensive weapons.
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