Canadian Denise Ho arrested during Hong Kong police raid on Stand News
Global News
One Canadian is in custody after Hong Kong police raided an online pro-democracy news organization and charged two people with sedition.
One Canadian is in custody after Hong Kong police raided an online pro-democracy news organization.
Police have formally charged two people working for Stand News with sedition, a day after the outlet said it would cease operations following a police raid on its office and seven arrests.
National security police say they’ve charged two men, reportedly both editors at the news outlet, with conspiracy to publish a seditious publication.
The five other arrestees are being detained for questioning and include Hong Kong-born-Canadian pop singer Denise Ho, who was a member of the outlet’s board.
Jenny Kwan, the New Democrat MP for Vancouver-East, says the arrests show freedoms and human rights in the region are being ignored by the ruling Communist party.
Kwan says the One Country-Two System created by Xiaoping Deng is being demolished and China has violated the Sino-British Joint Declaration, an international treaty that was registered in the United Nations.
The People’s Republic of China embassy did not immediately return a request for comment.
The arrests and raid on the media organizations comes as authorities crack down on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
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