Hong Kong’s National security police arrested two administrators of a social media group on Aug. 9 for suspected acts of “sedition.”
Shortly after the arrest, police said the two male administrators, aged 28 and 29, “were suspected of publishing posts to disseminate seditious messages that promoted feelings of ill will and enmity between different classes of Hong Kong’s population.”
Local media soon identified them as administrators of a Facebook page known as “Civil Servants Secrets,” which has repeatedly exposed problems within the Hong Kong government.
Before the arrests, police said they had initiated investigations on seven men—including the two administrators—aged between 28 and 43, and conducted searches at their residences and offices with a court warrant. Some communication devices were seized, the police department said….