On the anniversary of the former British colony’s handover to Chinese rule, thousands defied tear gas and pepper pellets to protest the security law.
Activist Lee Cheuk-yan washes his eyes with water after being pepper sprayed by Hong Kong police during a demonstration Wednesday.
Hong Kong police said on Facebook that they arrested some 370 people on various charges, including unlawful assembly, possession of weapons and violating the new law, which was imposed in a move seen as Beijing’s boldest step yet to erase the legal firewall between the semiautonomous territory and the mainland’s authoritarian Communist Party system.
Riot police stand guard after pushing back protesters demonstrating against the new security law on Wednesday. The law, which took effect Tuesday night, makes activities deemed subversive or secessionist punishable by up to life in prison. Police pepper spray protesters in Causeway Bay during the annual handover march in Hong Kong on Wednesday.Police remove a giant umbrella roadblock from a main road during a march marking the anniversary of the Hong Kong handover from Britain to China on Wednesday.Police detain a protester who had been pepper sprayed before the annual handover march in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
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