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Hong Kong police announce HK$1 million (US$128,000) bounties for five activists residing overseas, including Simon Cheng, charging them with inciting secession under the national security law.
2023-12-14

Police charge 47 out of the 55 arrested last month during a mass raid with "subversion". Those charged include Professor Benny Tai, former legislator James To, activist and district councilor Lester Shum and League of Social Democrats politicians and activists Leung Kwok-hung and Jimmy Sham, who was particularly defiant in court.
2021-02-28

Police in Hong Kong ban the 1 July march for the first time in 17 years. In a letter of objection addressed to protest organizer and convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) Jimmy Sham, police cite "persisting social unrest" and vandalism. Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung rejects an appeal by the CHRF who have said they will appeal the ban.
2020-06-27

Police seal off and trap hundreds of students and protesters inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University amid fears of a crackdown. After a police officer is injured, security forces threaten to fire live bullets if protesters do not give up lethal weapons.
2019-11-18

Pro-democracy demonstrators and the Hong Kong Police Force clash outside the headquarters of the Government of Hong Kong. Dozens of people are arrested.
2014-12-1

The Hong Kong Police Force arrests eleven more people in a second night of violence after removal of a camp in Mong Kok and seven police officers are arrested for alleged assault of a protester on October 15.
2014-11-27

More than 80 people are arrested as police dismantle a protest camp in the Mong Kok commercial district.
2014-11-26

Hong Kong authorities start clearing away barricades in the district of Mong Kok. [http:--www.miamiherald.com-news-nation-world-article4086855.html (AP via "Miami Herald")]date=August 2019
2014-11-25

The Hong Kong Police Force stages a dawn raid at the protest site in the suburb of Mong Kok.
2014-10-17

Police in Hong Kong arrest a man accused of attacking a Japanese couple near the Tsim Sha Tsui promenade on Monday.
2012-09-19