Hong Kong announces 336 arrests during Christmas protests

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Fri, 2019-12-27 09:31

HONG KONG: Hong Kong police arrested 336 people during the Christmas holiday as the city’s protest movement continues to simmer, an official said Friday.
Chief police spokesman Kwok Ka-chuen told reporters that those detained between Monday and Thursday included 92 women and minors as young as 12.
The arrests bring the number of people detained over the course of the protests to nearly 7,000, with a large proportion of student age.

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