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Hong Kong detains 47 activists on subversion charges

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HONG KONG – Hong Kong police on Sunday detained 47 pro-democracy activists on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion under the city's national security law.

The former lawmakers and democracy advocates had been previously arrested in a sweeping police operation in January but were released.

They have been detained again and will appear in court on Monday, police said in a statement. They allegedly violated the new national security law that was imposed by Beijing for participating in unofficial election primaries for the semi-autonomous Chinese territory’s legislature last year.

The defendants include 39 men and eight women aged between 23 and 64, police said. The pro-democracy camp had held the primaries to determine the best

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