Hong Kong Police Arrest Pro-Democracy Group Leaders Citing Foreign Collusion

Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China vice-chairwoman Tonyee Chow Hang-tung speaks to members of the media outside police headquarters in response to the National Security Department's request on allegations of foreign agents in Hong Kong, China, on Sept. 7, 2021. Anthony Kwan/Getty Images

Hong Kong police on Wednesday morning arrested four leaders of a pro-democracy group, alleging the group was working as a “foreign agent.”

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China is known for organizing the city’s annual vigil commemorating those who died in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.