(10 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hong Kong – 10 July 2025
1. Various of flags displayed as evidence at Hong Kong Police press conference
2. Wide of Li Kwai-wah, Chief Superintendent of Hong Kong Police’s National Security Department, arriving
3. Mid of journalists and Li
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Li Kwai-wah, Chief Superintendent, National Security Department, Hong Kong Police:
“According to the investigation, some of them are responsible for the design of the so-called flags for the organization, or the things. Another one is to have, to plan about how to solicit assistance from the foreign countries. And either one of them had their own plans to organize or to provide some military training for the fellow members.”
5. Pan right of presser
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Li Kwai-wah, Chief Superintendent, National Security Department, Hong Kong Police:
“The thing they organized is to endanger national security, such as to promote the independence of the part of a country. That is subversion. And you asked about whether we have jurisdiction for this arrest. Of course, the four guys we’ve just arrested we have, because the thing happened in Hong Kong.”
7. Various of journalists
8. Wide of Li leaving
STORYLINE:
Hong Kong police arrested four people linked to a Taiwan-based group under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
Authorities accuse the men, aged 15 to 47, of conspiracy to commit subversion. They face up to life imprisonment if convicted.
Li Kwai-wah, Chief Superintendent of the National Security Department in Hong Kong, said Thursday the four men’s roles included designing flags, studying how to solicit assistance from foreign countries, and planning to provide military training to fellow members.
During their search, Li said police found a proposal to urge the U.S. to devise plans to save political prisoners as well as flags that featured designs calling for Hong Kong and Tibet’s independence.
Li said the men "endangered national security."
Critics said the crackdown under the national security law imposed in 2020 has stifled the city’s freedom of expression, which Beijing promised to keep intact when Hong Kong returned to its rule in 1997.
The Beijing and Hong Kong governments said the law is necessary for the city’s stability following protests in 2019.
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