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Hong Kong issues arrest warrants for 19 activists based overseas

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters take part in a rally in London in 2022 to mark the anniversary of the mass demonstrations in the territory in 2019
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters take part in a rally in London in 2022 to mark the anniversary of the mass demonstrations in the territory in 2019. Photograph: May James/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

Hong Kong’s national security police have issued arrest warrants for 19 activists based overseas, accusing them of subversion under a stringent national security law, marking the largest such tally yet.

They are accused of organising or participating in the Hong Kong Parliament, a pro-democracy group that authorities in the Asian financial hub say intended to subvert state power, under the law Beijing imposed in 2020 after months of pro-democracy protests in 2019.

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