A Hong Kong pro-democracy group says the national security police stopped activists from joining a protest that was canceled last minute by the organizer. It would have been the first major civil rights protest in three years approved by police.
The League of Social Democrats said police questioned four of its members on Friday and warned them not to participate in the march that was planned by the Hong Kong Women Workers’ Association.
“The League of Social Democrats is very angry about being threatened and hindered by the national security police over joining a legal protest. But it has decided to be absent under such pressure,” the group said Police said in an email response to The Associated Press that when they take any action, they handle it “in accordance to the actual situation and the law.”
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