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    Eradicating a Democracy Movement

    Mass arrests in Hong Kong show both the power of an organized opposition and the authorities’ fear of it.
    by Timothy McLaughlin Jan 06, 2021 5 minutes
    Source: Chan Long Hei / Bloomberg / Getty

    The days in Hong Kong have recently been bookended by two numbers, neither of them comforting. One, the day’s COVID-19 infections, is announced at a set time by health officials, and despite the city’s relatively low numbers compared with Europe and the United States, remains stubbornly high compared with some regional neighbors.

    The other is compiled more chaotically and is in many ways more worrying. Beginning in the early morning, alerts land on social media, normally in the form of a note written by a trusted associate on a prodemocracy politician’s Facebook page, alerting the public that the politician has been taken by police. In some cases, the arrests are filmed, that capture the moment a group of officers descends on a sleepy suspect whose alleged crimes might be as minor as shouting a few words, but whose punishment may be

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