Hong Kong police investigating protest group

HONG KONG: Hong Kong police are reportedly investigating the group that organises an annual protest march marking the semiautonomous territory's handover to China for possible violation of the national security law.

The group would be the latest target of a sweeping crackdown on dissent that has followed Beijing's imposition of the national security law on the territory last year. The legislation outlaws secession, subversion, terrorism and foreign collusion and has been used to arrest more than 100 pro-democracy figures since it was first implemented a year ago as well as the closure of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily.

Although the proposed Bill was eventually withdrawn, the massive protests later burgeoned into broader calls for greater democratic freedoms, leading to months of demonstrations that at times turned violent between police and protesters.

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