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Police take Hong Kong's Stand News editor in chief out of the building where the local media outlet's office is located, and load boxes of evidence into a truck after they raided its office and arrested six current and former staff for "seditious publication". IMAGES
Hong Kong, May 10 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Jerome Favre) .- Hong Kong resumed local tourism under a new "vaccine bubble" after a six-month hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.FOOTAGE OF THE VICTORIA PEAK TOURIST SITE IN HONG KONG.
The US says it is "alarmed" after Hong Kong legislators fast-tracked a new national security law that introduces penalties such as life imprisonment for crimes related to treason and insurrection, and up to 20 years in jail for the theft of state secrets. "We believe that these kinds of actions have the potential to accelerate the closing of Hong Kong’s once open society," US Department of State deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel tells reporters during a press briefing. SOUNDBITE
Footballing icon Lionel Messi touches down at Hong Kong International Airport with teammates from Inter Miami for preseason matches in Asia. The team will take on a Hong Hong XI on Sunday, before heading to Japan to play Vissel Kobe on 7 February. IMAGES
Images of police and journalists outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building, where Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is due to stand trial in the Chinese city on national security charges that could see him jailed for life. IMAGES
Hong Kong's largest-ever national security trial begins final arguments Wednesday, more than 1,000 days after the case against 47 democracy activists under the Beijing-imposed law began. IMAGES