2022

12th December:

• A Hong Kong man has been arrested under the colonial-era sedition law after he allegedly published social media posts which “insulted” the Chinese national anthem and disclosed the personal data of police officers and their family members without consent.(HKFP)

22nd November:

• Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested a 42-year-old man on suspicion of sedition over social media posts, including one in which he thanked South Korea for “recognising Hong Kong’s national anthem,” local media reported. The message was posted alongside a video of a popular protest song being played instead of the Chinese national anthem at South Korea’s Rugby Sevens, according to HK01.(HKFP)

10th November:

• A Hong Kong journalist has been sent to three months in prison for waving the British-Hong Kong flag last year at a shopping mall during the streaming of the Olympic award ceremony for fencer Edgar Cheung Ka-long.

  Paula Leung Yan-ling, 42, waved the colonial-era flag at the APM shopping centre on 26 July 2021 when the Chinese national anthem was playing on a big screen during the award ceremony.(INDEPENDENT)

1st November:

• Sze Ching-wee, a former secretary for the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, was arrested at Hong Kong airport on 5th Nov on suspicion of conspiring to collude with foreign forces, local media reported citing sources.
  Police told HKFP that the national security department arrested a 38-year-old man, who “was suspected of breaching Article 29 of the National Security Law,” that is conspiring “to collude with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security.”(HKFP)

14th October:

• Chiang Cheuk-sang Arthur (22), a student, was charged with taking part in unlawful assembly for his involvement in a protest in Kwun Tong on 30th June 2020. Chiang was sentenced to 8 weeks of imprisonment. (KTCC930/2022) (The Witness)

13th October:

• Tam Ka Leung (19), a student, was charged with taking part in unlawful assembly for his involvement in a protest in Central on 13th November 2019. Tam was sentenced to a detention centre. A sentence to a detention centre for a maximum 12 months is an alternative to a prison term for people aged between 14 and 24. (DCCC 612/2020, DCCC 611/2020 (Consolidated)) (HKFP)

8th October:

• Wan Chung-wai (16, student), Yuen Ka-him (17, student), Leung Yung-wan (17, student), Tseung Chau Ching-yu (17, student), Kwok Man-hei (19, student), Choi Wing-kit (21, warehouse worker), and Chris Chan Yau-tsun (26, salesperson), members of Returning Valiant, were charged with conspiracy to incite subversion. They were charged following events that occurred between January 10, 2021, and May 6, 2021. They allegedly promoted a violent uprising against China through online social media platforms, street speeches, leaflet distribution, press conferences and online live broadcasts. Incitement was alleged to have occurred through two different Instagram accounts and one Facebook account. The five youngsters were sentenced to up to three years at a training centre, a rehabilitation-focused detention facility which can be a sentencing option for teens aged 14 to 20. The cases of Choi and Chan were adjourned pending a Court of Appeal ruling on the principles regarding minimum sentences in national security cases. (DCCC 801, DCCC905/2021) (SCMP, RTL, Standard)

27th September:

• CHAN, WAI LUN (30), an IT technical staff, was charged with doing an act or acts with seditious intention. The charge alleged that between 24th December 2021 and 23rd June 2022, Chan made or continued to make statements at LIHKG with the intent to arouse hatred or contempt for the Chinese Government and/ or the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, or to provoke betrayal against them; incite Hong Kong residents to attempt to change other matters enacted by the law in Hong Kong without lawful means; instigate others to use violence; and incite others to disobey the law or legal orders. Chan was sentenced to 16 weeks of imprisonment. (WKCC2144/2022)

19th September:

• A man surnamed Pang (43) was arrested for sedition when he played songs, including the British national anthem and Glory to Hong Kong, on a harmonica outside the British consulate in Hong Kong where hundreds of people gathered to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II. (The Guardian)

7th September:

• Five speech therapists, Lai Man Ling, Yeung Yat Yee Melody, Ng Hau Yi Sidney, Chan Yuen Sum Samuel, and Fong Tsz Ho were found guilty and convicted of “publishing seditious material” under Hong Kong’s colonial-era law over a series of children’s books depicting a “sheep village” under attack from “wolves”. All five have been remanded in custody since their arrest for 13 months and face a maximum sentence of up to two years in prison. (France 24)

10th August:

• Li Ka Leung (20), was charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly for his involvement in a protest in Ngau Tau Kok on 14 September 2019. (HK01)

9th August:

• A 28 year-old man surnamed Ho, Home Affairs Department Clerk, and a 29 year-old man surnamed Tong, System Analysis Officer at the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, were arrested for act with seditious intent and fraud. Police investigations revealed that the two arrested persons were the administrators of a Facebook page who were suspected of repeatedly posting seditious posts with the intent to arouse or deepen hatred and hostility among residents of different classes in Hong Kong on the social media page. (ST Headline)

1st August:

• Cheung Ting Fung (21), a student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, was charged with failure to produce proof of identity on demand and participating in an unlawful assembly. On 10 November, 2019, a group of people gathered in Tuen Mun for the "Shop with You" event mobilized by netizens. Cheung was fined HKD400 for failing to produce proof of identity. (InMedia)

28th July:

• Li Chi Wang (27), former Shatin District Councillor, was charged with behaving in a noisy or disorderly manner in a public place. Li was involved in a protest that opposed the National Security Law initiated by netizens in Causeway Bay on 24 May, 2020 alongside several other people. Lee was sentenced to 7 months of imprisonment. (InMedia)

• Pang Tsz Kin (23), a part-time tutor, was charged with desecrating the National Flag. Pang was charged with publicly and intentionally insulting three Chinese flags in a defiled manner at the junction of Yuhua Street and Yuhua Lane in Wong Tai Sin on 1 July 2021. Pang was sentenced to 4 months of imprisonment. (InMedia)

27th July:

• Cheung Wai Po (34), an interior designer, was charged with obstructing a police officer in the due execution of his duty for his involvement in clashes during a protest. On 14 September 2019, a group of pro-China people gathered in a mall in Ngau Tau Kok to sing the national anthem and wave the national flag, after which clashes between the pro-China group and protestors broke out. Cheung was charged with 11 weeks of imprisonment. (InMedia)

15th July:

• The ‘12 Hong Kong Youth’ were convicted of "illegal border crossing" in December 2020 after they were arrested by the China Coast Guards in August 2020 for allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan. Nine of them were charged with “perverting the course of justice” after serving their sentences in China. Seven defendants pleaded guilty to the charges and were sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court on 15 July. Li Tsz-yin, who was previously sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment, was allowed to serve part of his sentence concurrently with this case, adding seven months to his original sentence, making a total of four years and one month. The seven defendants are Liu Tsz-man (19), Cheng Tsz-ho (20), Cheung Chun-fu (25), Cheung Ming-yu (23), Yim Man-him (23), Li Tsz-yin (32) and Kok Tsz-lun (21). (SCMP)

• Cheung Ka-chai (24), a registered doctor, was sentenced to 20 months of imprisonment for taking part in an unlawful assembly. Cheung was arrested during a "sing with you" event at a shopping mall in Yuen Long on Christmas Eve 2019. (HCMA484/2021) (InMedia)

• Ho Ka-yan, an online media reporter, was sentenced to 240 hours of social service order for resisting a police officer in the due execution of her duty. On the night of the "Kowloon Parade" on May 10 2020, Ho, a reporter from the online media "Entertainment", was accused of resisting the policewoman's investigation during the filming in the women's toilet of Sai Yee Street. She was later pepper sprayed and accused of and arrested for struggling to resist arrest. (KCCC2829/2020) (InMedia)

13th July:

• Alexandra Wong Fung-yiu (66), a veteran Hong Kong activist known as “Grandma Wong”, had been charged with two counts of unlawful assembly from 2019, when millions had taken part in months of protracted pro-democracy protests against a perceived tightening of Chinese Communist Party control over the city. Wong was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment. (Reuters)

• Tsang Chi-kin (21), who was shot in the left chest by the police at close range during an Anti-extradition Law Amendment Bill Protest in October 2019 and was in a critical condition, was re-arrested in Sai Kung with three other men for "failing to comply with a court order to return to custody". Tsang was charged with ‘rioting’ and ‘assaulting a police officer’. He has been absent from court hearings since December 2020 and has been wanted since then. Tsang was brought to the District Court and the judge adjourned the case to 13 September with Tsang remaining in remand. (HKFP)

12th July:

• Koo Sze-yiu (75), a veteran Hong Kong activist who has been in jail for 11 times, was sentenced to 9 months of imprisonment for attempting or preparing to commit an act or acts with seditious intention under a colonial-era sedition law. Koo planned to protest against the Beijing Winter Olympics by carrying a homemade wooden coffin to China's Liaison Office in the city on the opening day of the Games on February 4, but national security police raided his apartment and arrested him that day before any protest could take place. Koo had denied the charge. Prior to his sentence, Koo had been held in custody for more than five months after being denied bail on national security grounds. (Case no.: WKCC481/2022) (CNN)

5th July:

• Lee Shing Hei (38), a salesperson, was charged with inciting others to knowingly take part in unauthorized assemblies and inciting others to cause obstruction of public place. The salesperson working at a telecommunications company was the administrator of the telegram group "Freedom of the World" and posted messages in the group calling on others to join a demonstration in November 2021 to block roads. Lee was sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment. (InMedia)

7th June:

• Tang Long Ching (23), a student, was charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly for her involvement in the "Three Suspensions (Stop work, Stop classes, Stop the markets)" protest in Yuen Long mobilized by netizens on 11 November, 2019. Tang was sentenced to 4 months and 2 weeks of imprisonment. (InMedia)

31st May:

• Chan Lok Yi (26), a sales and marketing executive, Chau Kam Wai (25), an engineer, and Wong Yat Lam Edmund (45), a real estate agent, were charged with rioting for their involvement in the ‘Shop With You’ event in Sha Tin in September 2019 where clashes between the police and the public broke out. The three were accused of rioting and Chau was accused of an additional charge of obstructing the police officer. Chan was sentenced to 41 months of imprisonment, Chau was sentenced to 44 months of imprisonment, and Wong was sentenced to 40 months of imprisonment. (Radio Free Asia)

24th May:

• Benny TAI Yiu-ting (57), former law professor and pro-democracy activist, was sentenced to 10 months of imprisonment for illegal election spending by placing advertisements in local newspapers in the run-up to the 2016 legislative polls. Charges against his two co-defendants, Ip Kim-ching and Sek Sau-ching, were conditionally dropped. Tai was accused of incurring over HK$253,000 in election expenses by placing three newspaper advertisements in Ming Pao, and three in the defunct Apple Daily newspaper in September 2016, even though they were not candidates or agents. (HKFP)

23th May:

• Wu Ka-fai (45), owner of a leak-proof engineering company, was sentenced to one month of imprisonment for behaving in a disorderly manner in a public place on the National Security Education Day in 2021. He was acquitted of two other charges of wilfully obstructing an on duty police officer in the execution of duty, and refusing or wilfully neglecting to obey an officer’s order. (HKFP)

20th May:

• Chan Leong Hei (18), a student, was sent to a training centre for rioting. During the siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019, there was traffic jam in the area but Chan and the other defendants in the case decided to go to the scene and did not leave. When they were arrested at the scene, their equipment was confiscated. Though their actions were not documented, they were still accused of participating in or encouraging participation in a riot. (Ming Pao)

19th May:

• Ng Man Ho (26), a computer technician and administrator of Suck Channel (Telegram channel) was sentenced to 6 years and 6 months of imprisonment for Conspiracy to incite criminal damage, Conspiracy to incite arson, Conspiracy to incite public nuisance, Conspiracy to incite dynamite, Conspiracy to incite grievous bodily harm with intent, Conspiracy to incite riot, and Conspiracy to incite others to administer poison or other injurious or harmful substances. The charges alleged that the defendant, from October 4, 2019 to June 28, 2020, conspired to incite or illegally incite others, criminally damaged roads and vehicles, set fire to police quarters, illegally obstructed roads, High Speed Rail West Kowloon Station, and the airport , interfering with traffic lights, obstructing railway operations, making explosives, participating in riots in the CUHK area, and administering poison. (Orange News)

11th May:

• On 11 May, Cardinal Joseph Zen (90), senior barrister Margaret Ng (74), activist and pop singer Denise Ho (45), former lawmaker Cyd Ho (67), and former academic Hui Po-keung were arrested on charges of “collusion with foreign forces" for running the now-disbanded 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which funded legal aid to pro-democracy protestors throughout the 2019 pro-democracy movement. Police said they were suspected of asking for foreign sanctions. All were released on bail with their passports confiscated under the national security law. (Reuters)

• Chan To-wai (57), former standing committee member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, was sentenced to 3 months of imprisonment for failing to assist a police investigation into the group’s alleged violation of the national security law. During his tenure as a committee member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, from 2020 to 2021, Chan received a notice from the Police’s National Security Service on 25 August 2021, requesting the submission of information within 14 days. Chan and others refused to submit information to the police and was arrested on 8 September 2021. (Case no.: WKCC 3633/2021) (SCMP)

13th April:

• Hong Kong activist Allan Chung Kin Ping was sentenced to 16 months in prison for his role in organising an unauthorised assembly in Yuen Long on 27 July 2019, days after a mob attack took place in the district. The “Reclaim Yuen Long” demonstration was to protest what Chung regarded as a terrorist attack by more than 100 rod-wielding men on 21 July, when citizens, commuters, protesters and journalists were assaulted indiscriminately inside and around the Yuen Long MTR station. (HKFP)

11th April:

• Veteran journalist Allan Au Ka Lun was arrested for conspiring to publish seditious materials. Au worked as a senior producer at TVB News and a radio host on RTHK, and was also a columnist for outlets including Stand News and Ming Pao. Au was fired from RTHK in June 2021 amid a government-directed editorial overhaul. Au's arrest was reportedly linked with the Stand News case in which the platform's former editor-in-chief Chung Pui Kuen and former acting chief editor Patrick Lam were arrested and are currently held in custody pending trial under the same charge. (HKFP)

8th April:

• Garry Pang Moon Yuen and Chiu Mei-ying were charged with "uttering seditious words" at a court hearing on 4 January 2022 where Hong Kong Alliance vice-chair Chow Hang Tung was sentenced. Pang, a Youtuber who publishes videos and livestreams about 2019 protest-related trials, was also charged with "doing an act or acts with a seditious intention." He was accused of producing videos with an intent to bring “hatred,” “contempt” or “disaffection” against the judiciary and to raise “discontent or disaffection” among the city’s residents and to “counsel disobedience” of the law. Chiu was granted a cash bail of HK$20,000 on the condition that she reports to a police station 3 times a week and hands over all of her travel documents. Pang will be remanded in custody until his bail hearing on 11 April 2022. Pang and Chiu were among the 6 people arrested on 6 April 2022. The other 4 were released on bail and would have to report to the police in early May. (HKFP)

7th April:

• Keith Fong Chung Yin was sentenced to 9 months in prison for his charges of resisting a police officer and perverting the course of justice. The former Hong Kong Baptist Union student union president was arrested on 6 August 2019 by off-duty officers when he was buying 10 laser pointers from a hawker. District Court Judge Douglas Yau ruled that Fong had obstructed police investigations by resetting his phone before it was seized as evidence, which affected judicial procedures and criminal prosecution. Fong also “caused confusion” during his arrest by repeatedly asking the officers to prove their identity. Fong was originally also accused of possessing offensive weapons. Yau rejected Fong’s defence that he bought the laser pointers for stargazing. While the purchase was “suspicious,” the judge ruled that it was difficult to determine how he would actually use the items and cleared him of the charge. (HKFP)

6th April:

• 4 men and 2 women were arrested for "doing an act or acts with seditious intention" and are detained for further enquiries. They "deliberately conducted nuisance behaviours" at proceedings in the High Court, West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts and Eastern Magistrates’ Courts between December 2021 and January 2022, "seriously affecting the solemnity of the judiciary and court operations." The arrestees include former vice chairman of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) Leo Tang and citizen journalist Siew Yun Long. Tang was brought in by police for questioning Thursday last week (31/3/2022) alongside 3 former leaders of HKCTU. (HKFP)

• 13 people were sentenced to between 42 and 48 months in jail over rioting charges relating to a protest in Sheung Wan on 28 July 2019. Two other defendants aged 17 and 21 during the protest were sentenced to a training centre and detention centre respectively. District Judge Ernest Lin said protestors had deepened the divide within society, whilst their pursuit of democracy and freedom had become a form of despotism. “Under the hood of self-proclaimed noble ideas, they sacrificed the freedom and property of other people,” Lin said. (HKFP)

4th April:

• Five people were sentenced over charges of rioting and resisting a police officer relating to their participation in the National Day protest in 2019 in Wong Tai Sin. They were accused of having turned the district into a battlefield, paralysing transportation and bringing fear to the society. Ho Man Him (27) and Mak Ho Wai (24) were sentenced to 4 years 6 months in prison. Kwok Siu Kit (30) was sentenced to 4 years 6 months in prison as well but the sentence was reduced by 3 months after taking into account his health problems. Cheung Kai Cheong (22) was sentenced to a detention centre after being judged to have a low chance of reoffending. Wan Tsz Lam (19) was sentenced to a training centre. (HKFP)

7th March:

• Winnie Yu Wai Ming, founder and former chairwoman of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance, a union that emerged from the pro-democracy movement in 2019, was arrested on suspicion of violating her bail conditions by making comments online that could endanger national security. She was released on bail last July after being charged with conspiracy to subvert state power over an unofficial primary election for the Legislative Council in 2020. Yu's bail conditions include refraining from all acts and speeches that could endanger national security, including taking interviews, as well as running, organising and coordinating any elections. She was detained when she reported back to the Sha Tin Police Station. (SCMP)

2rd March:

• Tam Tak Chi, pro-democracy activist, Vice Chairman of People Power and former radio DJ, was found guilty of 11 charges at the District Court including "uttering seditious words," "holding or convening an unauthorised assembly," "incitement to knowingly take part in an unauthorised assembly" and "refusing to obey an order given by an authorised officer." He was acquitted of two charges of "disorderly conduct in a public place" and one count of "conspiracy to utter seditious words." Tam became the first person to stand trial on sedition charges since Hong Kong's handover in 1997. The sedition law, last amended in the 1970s when Hong Kong was still under British colonial rule, falls under the city’s Crimes Ordinance and not the Beijing-imposed National Security Law. (HKFP)

17th February:

• Tommy Yuen Man-on, aged 41 and a singer-activist, was officially charged with one count of “doing an act or acts with seditious intention,” after he was accused of having provoked hatred towards the government and the judiciary through various social media posts. Yuen's bail application was rejected and he would be remanded in custody pending trial. The case was adjourned to April 14 for mention. (HKFP)

15th February:

• On 15 February, Tommy Yuen Man-on, aged 41 and a singer-activist, was arrested by the Hong Kong Police’s National Security Department on suspicion of acting with seditious intent and money laundering. The national security department claimed that Tommy Yuen had been committing seditious acts which provoked hatred towards the government and the judiciary on his social media since September 2021. It also alleged that Tommy Yuen performed a song with the lyrics "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" at an online concert on his own social media in November 2021. The singer was said to have urged people to boycott anti-epidemic measures and used profanity to criticise the opinions of medical experts. (HKFP)

• Another man surnamed Wong, reportedly Yuen's ex-wife's brother, was arrested for money laundering on the same day. It was understood that he has been granted police bail pending further investigation. (The Standard)

8th February:

• Samuel Philip Bickett, a lawyer, was sentenced to 4.5 months of imprisonment (after serving more than 6 weeks in jail). Bickett was convicted in June 2021 of assaulting a plain-clothes police officer. In the appeal hearing, Bickett’s legal representatives said the appellant had been acting in self-defence as Bickett believed the officer posed a threat to others. Bickett won the application for an appeal at the High Court after serving more than six weeks in a prison. He was released on HK$150,000 bail in August 2021. After his appeal was dismissed, Bickett was ordered to serve the remainder of his sentence. (HKFP)

4th February:

• Koo Sze-yiu, aged 70 and a pro-democracy activist, was charged with inciting subversion of state power. Koo was planning to demonstrate outside Beijing’s Liaison Office to protest Beijing's Winter Olympics. (HKFP)

• Cheung Chiu-hung, aged 64 and former member of the Legislative Council, was charged with contempt and sentenced to 3 weeks of imprisonment. In May 2021, Cheung stood in front of chairperson in Legislative Council session and chanted "Starry Lee ultra vires" for 44 minutes. (SCMP)

1st February:

• Kim Chiang Chung-sang, aged 41 and a property manager, was charged with 5 counts of displaying and possessing physical and digital seditious publication and was sentenced to 8 months of imprisonment. Prosecutors accused Chiang of displaying seditious publications calling for protesters to gather in Causeway Bay on 12 June 2021. Other copies criticised High Court judges presiding over Tong Ying-kit’s case with the words “corrupt Hong Kong communist officials buried their conscience, their families must die." He was also accused of possessing digital files containing slogans such as “police are Hong Kong’s largest criminal organisation” or describing Carrie Lam as “a wicked woman.” (HKFP)

27th January:

• Lam Cheuk-ting, aged 44 and former Democratic Party lawmaker, was charged with offence to disclose identity of persons being investigated and sentenced to 4 months of imprisonment. He was accused of disclosing the identity of a police superintendent who was under investigation by the ICAC for his role in the Yuen Long attack in 2019, an offence under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. (HKFP)

18th January:

• Edward Sung, aged 35, was accused of Originating Summons( Contempt of Court) and sentenced to 21 days of imprisonment, suspended for 12 months. Sung violated a court injunction issued by the High Court on 31 October 2019 that bans acts of “disseminating, circulating, publishing or re-publishing” online messages that encourage bodily injury to any person, or damage to any property. Sung shared a Facebook picture of a police officer who shot a protester using a live round in Sai Wan Ho and wrote “kill this bastard cop” under the post. The next day, he wrote another social media post that read: “must see black cops die.” (HKFP)

17th January:

• Hui Tim-lik, aged 21, was charged with wounding with intent and sentenced to 93 months of imprisonment. Hui, then a secondary six student, was accused of having jabbed a box cutter into a police sergeant's neck on 13 October 2019. (HKFP)

15th January:

• Chan Ting-kwan and Chan Kwok-wai, aged 17 and 18, were charged with rioting and sent to training centre where the minimum period of detention is six months and the maximum is three years. They were protesters who allegedly hurled petrol bombs towards a police cordon near PolyU on 18 November 2019. (HKFP)

• Nelson Chan, Kong Keng-tong, Wong Sik-chit, Leung Ka-sing, Tsang Sin-yee, Tang Kam-lok and Jim Lung-heung, aged 20-29, were charged with rioting and sentenced to 38-40 months of imprisonment. They were protesters who allegedly hurled petrol bombs towards a police cordon near PolyU on 18 November 2019. (HKFP)

13th January:

• Owen Chow, aged 24, was charged with conspiracy to subvert the state in February 2021 for his participation in the pro-democracy camp primary election in 2020. He was released on bail on 22 June 2021. He was re-arrested when he reported to North Point Police Station for violating bail conditions, as he continuously published political remarks on Facebook. (HKFP)

10th January:

• Tang Ho-yin, aged 30 and former member of Student Politicism, was charged with assaulting a police officer in the due execution of his duty and sentenced to 3 months of imprisonment. Tang was accused of elbowing a police officer while manning a street booth in Mong Kok in February 2020. (HKFP)

• 21 people, aged 19-40 and 7 of whom were students, were charged with rioting and sentenced to 30 to 42 months of imprisonment. They were accused of rioting during a protest in Sheung Wan on 28 July 2019 in response to the Yuen Long attack. Protestors' gear and equipment demonstrated they had come prepared, according to District Court judge Jonny Chan. (HKFP)

4th January:

• Chow Hang-tung, aged 36 and former vice-chair of the Hong Kong Alliance, was charged with inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly (the banned Tiananmen Massacre commemoration) and sentenced to 15 months of imprisonment. (HKFP)

16 January:

• 1 man arrested in Sham Shui Po for assault and possession of offensive weapons. He flashed the police with a torch (RTHK)

• 1 woman arrested in Sheung Shui for possession of simulated bomb (RTHK)

15 January:

• 6 men, aged 17-23, arrested for possession of simulated bomb (RTHK)

• 4 men arrested in Mongkok for possession of stimulated bomb (RTHK)

13 January:

• 1 man arrested, aged 32, for disclosing person data of a police officer without consensus (RTHK)

11 January:

• 1 girl, aged 15, arrested outside the British Consulate for carrying a spray adhesive (SCMP)

10 January:

• 2 students arrested for vandalism in Cheung Sha Wan (RTHK)

9 January:

• At least 2 were arrested in Tseung Kwan O for possession of offensive weapons (RTHK)

• 1 woman, aged 24, arrested for inciting others to commit arson and assault (RTHK)

8 January:

• 1 boy, aged 15, arrested for arson in Yuen Long (RTHK)

• 5 men arrested for arson at Kowloon Tong in October (RTHK)

5 January:

• Dozens arrested at Sheng Shui for unlawful assembly (RTHK)

2 January:

• 1 man, aged 22, jailed for possessing 2 petrol bombs in October (SCMP)

• More than 280 arrested for unlawful assembly, possession of offensive weapons, etc. 3 Civil Rights Observers were arrested with unknown charges (RTHK)

1 January:

• (Update for the 464 arrested): 287 arrested in Causeway Bay for unlawful assembly (RTHK)

• More than 400 arrested in Causeway Bay for unlawful assembly (RTHK)

• 5 arrested in Central for vandalising the HSBC branch (RTHK)

• 3 men and 2 women arrested for possession of offensive weapons and riot (RTHK)

• 5 boys arrested, aged 13-19, for possession of offensive weapons at Victoria Park and Wan Chai (RTHK)