Hong Kong Police Tell Foreign Hosting Firm to Remove Website

Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law stands next to a banner reading "Free Hong Kong. Revolution now" as he attends a demonstration outside the Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 1, 2020. Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images

LONDON—A Hong Kong pro-democracy website was temporarily taken down after police warned the Israel-based hosting company that it breached a national security law, highlighting concerns about actions by authorities in the Chinese city to muzzle online dissent abroad.

Nathan Law, a Hong Kong opposition leader based in the U.K., tweeted Thursday that the hosting company, Wix.com, received a request from the Hong Kong police department to disable the 2021 Hong Kong Charter website.