The SCMP reports
- Suspected members of the student group ‘Returning Valiant’ are detained in a series of Thursday morning raids, and during a burglary at a secondary school the day before
- Police source says banners and flags bearing slogans related to Hong Kong independence were seized along with an airgun at some of their homes
Hong Kong national security
Police have arrested five members of a local student group over social media comments which allegedly constitute acts of subversion, according to sources.
Three of the five suspects were scooped up in a series of Thursday morning raids as part of an operation against the student group known as “Returning Valiant”, according to one police source. Two of those three suspects – one male and one female – were secondary school students, while the third was an unemployed man.
The other two suspects accused of violating the security law – who were also said to be members of the group – were among a group of four teenage students arrested during a Wednesday morning burglary at a Tseung Kwan O secondary school. Some of the four are understood to be students at the school in question.
“Their comments left on social media could constitute the offence of subversion under the national security law,” the source said.
The raids were triggered by the burglary at the school, according to the force.
