Rarely
have so many prominent pro-democracy figures — over a dozen — been
arrested at once. The arrests signaled a broader crackdown on the
antigovernment movement that roiled the semiautonomous city last year.
HONG
KONG — More than a dozen leading pro-democracy activists and former
lawmakers in Hong Kong were arrested on Saturday in connection with the
protests that raged in the city last year, the biggest roundup of
prominent opposition figures in recent memory.
The
arrests signaled a broader crackdown on the antigovernment movement
that roiled the semiautonomous city last year, one of the most
significant challenges to Communist Party rule in decades. Beijing and
pro-government supporters in the city have called for lawmakers to pass
national security laws that residents worry would allow the mainland
authorities to further encroach upon the territory’s civic freedoms.
The
high-profile arrests were made as Hong Kong battled to contain the
coronavirus outbreak, which has helped quiet down the huge street
protests but fueled further distrust of the authorities.
The virus has halted protests around the world, forcing people to stay
home and giving the authorities new laws for limiting public gatherings
and detaining people with less fear of public blowback while many
residents remained under lockdowns or observing limits on their
movement.
But the arrests on Saturday
in Hong Kong, along with a renewed push for national security
legislation in the city, could anger protesters and reinvigorate mass
demonstrations that had tapered off.
Fifteen
activists between 24 and 81 years old were rounded up on suspicion of
organizing, publicizing or taking part in several unauthorized
assemblies between August and October and will face prosecution, the
police said on Saturday without disclosing their names, following
protocol.
The arrested democratic
heavyweights included the veteran lawyers Martin Lee and Margaret Ng,
the media tycoon Jimmy Lai and the former opposition legislators Albert
Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan and Leung Kwok-hung, political parties and aides said.
While opposition politicians have been included among the thousands of protest-related arrests over the past year, rarely have so many prominent pro-democracy figures been arrested at once.
Lau
Siu-kai, vice president of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and
Macau Studies, a powerful Beijing advisory group, said that the arrests
on Saturday represented an early step toward a broader crackdown by
Beijing on the Hong Kong opposition.
The
arrests reflect an assessment by Beijing that protests in Hong Kong
over the past year pose such a threat to national security that it is
worthwhile to defy American threats of retaliation if a crackdown takes
place, he said.
“Now
Beijing is calling the U.S.’s bluff and taking the initial steps
against the Hong Kong opposition, and there will be more steps to shrink
their space,” said Mr. Lau, who was also a senior Hong Kong government
official in the years immediately after Britain’s return of the city to
Chinese sovereignty.
A Communist Party
gathering late last year in Beijing, the so-called fourth plenum, set a
new tone for policy in Hong Kong that will be carried out this year,
Mr. Lau said. “This is the time to end the chaos in Hong Kong,” he said.
“After the fourth plenum, Beijing is determined to end the chaos in
Hong Kong once and for all.”
The
arrests followed calls from China’s central government in recent days
for Hong Kong to enact a package of national security laws that was last
put forward in 2003, but shelved after a mass protest.
Luo
Huining, Beijing’s top representative in Hong Kong, said this past week
that national security has always been a “prominent shortcoming” since
the former British colony’s return to Chinese control in 1997. He called for urgent work on the “legal system and enforcement mechanism to safeguard national security,” a contentious issue in the city.
Legal
experts and critics of Beijing have warned against perceived increased
interference in Hong Kong’s local affairs by the Chinese government. The
central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong has recently
criticized filibustering by pro-democracy legislators, raising concerns
that it was violating the “one country, two systems” principle.
The Hong Kong Bar Association called on the Chinese authorities to exercise restraint and said the comments by Beijing’s representatives
“could easily be perceived as interference” in contravention of Hong
Kong’s Basic Law, the local Constitution. Late Friday the liaison office
responded that as Beijing’s designated representative in the city, the
prohibitions on departments of China’s central government interfering in
Hong Kong affairs did not apply.
The roundup on Saturday drew condemnation from other activists and others.
“When
all countries are now busy combating #coronavirus, the authoritarian
regime of #China is now clamping down on democracy movements in
#HongKong,” tweeted Joshua Wong, a well-known pro-democracy activist in the city.
“This
is not the rule of law. This is what authoritarian governments do,”
said Chris Patten, Hong Kong’s last colonial governor. “It becomes ever
more clear, week by week and day by day, that Beijing is determined to
throttle Hong Kong. The world should make clear how this further
undermines any residual trust that we still have in the Chinese
Communist dictatorship.”
Mr. Patten
described the Beijing officials’ reasoning that they were right to weigh
in on local affairs as “ludicrous” and “a reckless argument” that shows
that Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, “is determined to abandon the
policies pursued by his predecessors, even at the cost of destroying
Hong Kong’s way of life.”
Some of
those arrested on Saturday represented an older generation of
pro-democracy figures who advocated peaceful methods even as the
protests grew increasingly violent last year, and to some extent were
dismissed by younger activists as too moderate. Convictions could bar
some of them from seeking office this year, when Hong Kong holds
legislative elections in September.
Mr.
Lee, 81, is often called the “Father of Democracy” in Hong Kong, and
helped draft the Basic Law in the 1980s. He has long represented
activists in court, and said on Saturday after he was released on bail
that he had “no regrets” in joining them as a defendant himself.
“I am proud to finally have a chance to continue on this path to democracy with these fine young people of Hong Kong,” he said.
Ms. Ng, who like Mr. Lee is also a former lawmaker, was photographed carrying a copy of a recent book titled “China’s National Security: Endangering Hong Kong’s Rule of Law?” as she entered the police station.
Mr. Lai, 72, a media baron who publishes a popular pro-democracy newspaper and is known for his ardent opposition to China, is already facing charges on allegations of participating in another protest and intimidating a reporter from a rival pro-Beijing outlet.
More
than 7,000 demonstrators have been arrested since June, as protests
calling for greater democracy and police accountability increasingly
spiraled into violent clashes with riot officers.
Keith Bradsher contributed reporting from Beijing, and Ezra Cheung from Hong Kong.
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