Under the cloak of COVID-19, China has turned Hong Kong from a city of protest to a city of prosecution

Dawn raids, mass arrests and lives upended.

It’s become common in Hong Kong since China’s Government imposed a national security law on the city, but yesterday set a new record.

Police, backed by mainland Chinese National Security investigators, raided and rounded up around 50 political figures in the city.

They also raided the home of prominent activist Joshua Wong but they couldn’t take him away as authorities had already jailed him for illegally protesting.

Among those arrested and suspected of the new crime of “political subversion” was prominent academic Benny Tai, who proposed the Occupy pro-democracy protests of 2014 as well as former local politicians, such as Claudio Mo.

In fact, most of the candidates and organisers of last year’s…