Hong Kong police on May 11 arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, along with four other pro-democracy figures allegedly linked to a fund supporting Hong Kong protesters, according to local media reports. The arrests were made under a draconian Beijing-imposed national security law used to quash dissent in the city.
Hong Kong National Security Police Unit arrested Zen, who was the former head of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong, singer and activist Denise Ho, academic Hui Po-Keung, lawyer Margaret Ng, and former lawmaker former Cyd Ho for allegedly contravening the “collusion with foreign forces” provision of the National Security Law.
Those arrested were trustees of the now-dissolved “612 Humanitarian Relief Fund,” which provided medical and humanitarian assistance to pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong in 2019. The fund dissolved in August 2021.
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