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HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers were arrested and then released yesterday over their involvement in mass protests for free elections, the latest step in a widespread investigation that has been accused of seeking to intimidate activists.
Police have vowed to investigate the principal instigators of the street blockades that ended in December when rally camps were cleared.
Albert Ho and Helena Wong, both of the Democratic Party, voluntarily turned themselves in at Wan Chai police headquarters yesterday morning on the request of the police.
Both were holding small paper yellow umbrellas the symbol of the democracy movement as they went into the police station while supporters carrying umbrellas and placards shouted We want universal suffrage.
Today Albert Ho and myself were formally arrested, said Wong after she was released.
She said that during questioning police showed her a video and two Facebook photos taken during the protests to illustrate that she had participated in an unauthorised assembly.
Ho said he was questioned over the same allegations.
Both Wong and Ho said the possibility of future charges remained.
I think this is a kind of political prosecution against those who fight for true democracy, Wong added.
Police had no immediate comment.
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