Thu January, 2021, Age: 3 years
American human rights lawyer, John Clancey, among the 53 pro-democracy advocates arrested Wednesday by the Hong Kong police, has been released from prison on bail. The arrests were carried out under the auspices of the national security law and Chinese authorities have said that those arrested were planning to subvert the Hong Kong government and undermine China. Most of the individuals were candidates in an illicit primary held last summer; Clancey was the treasurer for a political organization called “Power for Democracy” that took part in the primaries. The arrests have sparked an international uproar and the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva has said that “the National Security Law is indeed being used to detain individuals for exercising legitimate rights to participate in political and public life.”
