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Hong Kong court keeps all 47 pro-democracy activists detained earlier this week in custody
A Hong Kong court has ordered all 47 pro-democracy activists charged under a Beijing-imposed national security law to be kept in custody after the Department of Justice appealed an initial decision to grant 15 of them bail.
Key points:
- Arrests of the pro-democracy activists were made under Hong Kong’s national security law
- Prominent activist Joshua Wong is among those who have been in court
- Nearly all of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists are either in prison or in exile
Thirty-one of the activists were denied bail outright, with the co-founder of the 2014 Occupy Central protest movement, Benny Tai, withdrawing his bail application after he was ordered held in custody in a separate case.
The next hearing in the case will be on May 31.
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