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Added on the 09/06/2020 14:38:10 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A woman is taken away by police in Hong Kong on the 34th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown. The woman was stopped by police in the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay while wearing yellow and black clothing and brandishing a card with the words "conscience" in Chinese characters, before she was transported away in a police vehicle. IMAGES
An American citizen, John Clancey, working for a law firm known for taking on human rights cases, was among those arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday under a new national security law imposed by Beijing. He was seen led away by police outside the building where his law firm is located. "Continue to work for democracy and human rights in Hong Kong," he says as he walks out of the building. IMAGES
Scenes outside law firm Ho Tse Wai and Partners -- a firm known for taking on human rights cases. An American citizen John Clancey, who works for the firm, was among those arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, two sources told AFP. Clancey is the first American national detained under the new security law in Hong Kong since its imposition in late June last year. IMAGES outside building where law firm Ho Tse Wai and Partners is located
Images from outside a police station in central Hong Kong where democracy activist Joshua Wong is being held after his arrest for "unlawful assembly" relating to a 2019 protest against a government ban on face masks. IMAGES
US President Donald Trump calls arrested Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai a "brave man" and expresses his support. "I sent him best wishes," Trump tells reporters in the White House, calling Lai "certainly a brave man." SOUNDBITE