Loss of inhibition

6 January 2021 By Pete Sweeney Follow @petesweeneypro

Police arrested over 50 opposition candidates and a U.S. lawyer in dawn raids linked to an unofficial primary race. Banks and brokerages can mostly shrug it off, but for media and tech firms that host or transmit any exchange of ideas in the city it’s the dawn of a riskier era.

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Hong Kong police arrested dozens of leading democratic activists on Jan. 6 on suspicion of violating the city's new security law, in the biggest crackdown yet against the opposition camp since Beijing imposed the law in 2020.

The swoop on many of the most prominent pro-democracy advocates in Hong Kong was linked to an unofficial, independently organised vote in July last year to select opposition candidates for a since-postponed legislative election.

Police also searched the offices of a pollster and a law firm and went to the offices of media outlets Apple Daily, Stand News, and Inmediahk, according to media.

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