Hong Kong Social Media Administrators Arrested Over ‘Seditious’ Content

A special unit of the Hong Kong police provides security in the city's Wanchai district, as Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrives in Hong Kong to attend celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China, on June 30, 2022. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images

Hong Kong’s National security police arrested two administrators of a social media group on Aug. 9 for suspected acts of “sedition.”

Shortly after the arrest, police said the two male administrators, aged 28 and 29, “were suspected of publishing posts to disseminate seditious messages that promoted feelings of ill will and enmity between different classes of Hong Kong’s population.”