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Nearly 300 people have been arrested after the biggest protest since the entry into force of China's national security law, as they tried to mark the original election date postponed for a year.
The girl's mother said she did not demonstrate at all, after a police officer jumped on her in the street.
China: "They are trying to rekindle war"
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Monday, 07 September 2020, 13:30
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In video: Police arrest violent girl in Hong Kong (from Twitter)
Some 300 people, including a 12-year-old girl, were arrested by Hong Kong police after a protest against the postponement of the election, which was scheduled to take place yesterday (Sunday).
These were postponed for a year by the city leader Carrie Lam, with the blessing of China, on the grounds of fear of the spread of the corona plague.
However, the pro-democracy opposition saw this as an excuse designed to prevent voters from expressing their protest against the Chinese authorities and national security law.
Hundreds of police were deployed in the Kowloon area following online calls for flash mob demonstrations to mark the postponed elections.
Residents shouted at them "Return my voice" and "Corrupt cops".
According to police, among the 289 detainees was a woman who shouted calls for the city’s independence - in violation of Chinese security law that went into effect in the summer.
Three pro-Democratic politicians were also arrested, hours after the Hong Kong police's new National Security Unit arrested Tam Tak-chi, a famous and pro-democracy activist, for "rebellious words" - a colonial-era crime.
Police did not specify what he said.
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She was fined for an illegal gathering.
Police arrest a girl in Hong Kong, yesterday
A video posted on social media and media outlets in Hong Kong shows a police officer dropping a girl to the ground, and several other police officers helped him hold the 12-year-old to the ground.
Her family said she stumbled upon a crowd of protesters while purchasing art supplies, and her mother said she would file a complaint and prosecution.
She told the Apple Daily that her daughter and 20-year-old son, both of whom were fined for violating corona-banning anti-crowding regulations, bought art supplies, and that her daughter ran because she was scared.
She was bruised and scratched after the encounter with the cops.
Police confirmed her arrest and claimed she ran "dangerously" and that officers used "the minimum force necessary" to arrest her.
"Police are concerned about the participation of young people in illicit gatherings. Their presence in chaotic protest scenes also endangers their own safety," police said.
Claudia Mo, a pro-Democratic lawmaker, said the girl's arrest shows "how nervous Hong Kong police have become and with a light finger on the trigger."
Hong Kong's autonomy is gone.
Police in the city, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)
The Beijing Coordinating Bureau in Hong Kong said the organizers of the demonstrations, which have been the largest since the National Security Act went into effect on July 1, are "heartless" trying to "re-ignite war."
"There is zero tolerance for any act that violates the National Security Act," a bureau spokesman said.
"We will not allow Hong Kong to degenerate into chaos again."
The Hong Kong government has condemned the protesters' "illegal and selfish" actions, and a spokesman said "what is a top priority is to unite and fight the virus together in concerted efforts".
Since the implementation of the National Security Law, which prohibits rebellion, segregation, conspiracy with foreign forces and terrorism, at least 25 people have been arrested under it, but only one person has been prosecuted so far.
China is trying to prevent the recurrence of huge demonstrations that rocked the World Financial Center last summer until the beginning of the year, when protests waned with the outbreak of the corona plague.
Most public gatherings have since been banned for security or medical reasons.
In the West it is said that the new law erodes the autonomy promised to Hong Kong upon its return to Chinese rule in 1997, when Beijing pledged to guarantee for 50 years various freedoms in the former British colony that do not exist in China itself.
The United States has said that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous and has abolished its economic privileges.
The Chinese and Hong Kong governments deny that the law violates these freedoms, describing criticism of it as foreign interference in their internal affairs.
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