3 former pro-democracy lawmakers arrested in Hong Kong
Source: AP
By ZEN SOO
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police arrested three former opposition lawmakers Wednesday for disrupting legislative meetings several months ago, as concerns grow over a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy camp.
Posts on the Facebook accounts of Ted Hui, Eddie Chu and Raymond Chan said they had been arrested in relation to the incidents in the legislature’s main chamber. The trio separately disrupted legislative meetings by splashing pungent liquids and other items on two occasions.
Hong Kong police said in a statement that they had arrested three former lawmakers on charges of contempt in the legislature and intent to cause harm to others. Police did not identify them by name.
The pro-democracy camp has in recent months accused the Hong Kong government and the central Chinese government in Beijing of tightening control over the semi-autonomous Chinese territory in response to demands for more democracy, destroying the autonomy promised to the city, a global financial center with Western-style civil liberties.
FILE - In this May 8, 2020, file photo, then pan-democratic legislator Eddie Chu, center, is taken away by security guards during a Legislative Council's House Committee in Hong Kong. Hong Kong police arrested three former opposition lawmakers, Chu, Ted Hui and Ray Chan, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 for disrupting legislative meetings several months ago, as concerns grow over a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy camp. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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