Beijing and the Hong Kong government are using the pandemic as a “golden opportunity” to crack down on dissent and the growing pro-democracy movement, according to a senior protest leader arrested over the weekend.
My colleague Helen Davidson has spoken with Lee Cheuk Yan, a veteran politician and activist who was arrested along with 14 other high-profile people on Saturday. The arrests came amid a series of acts by authorities seen as alarming intrusions on Hong Kong’s autonomy, ahead of elections in September. (Dumitru S.).
