Hong Kong protesters investigated

Hong Kong police are reportedly investigating the group that organises an annual protest march marking the semi-autonomous territory’s handover to China for possible violation of the national security law.

Police are gathering evidence and could take action against the Civil Human Rights Front, which holds the July 1 march each year and also organised some of the bigger political protests that disrupted the city in 2019, Police Commissioner Raymond Siu Chakyee told Ta Kung Pao newspaper in an interview.

Siu also said that the group had never been formally registered with the police or government, adding: “Anyone who violates the law, they better not think that they can escape.”