Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 72

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Last month marked six years since the Beijing-imposed national security law took effect in Hong Kong.

The crackdown continued in June: an independent bookshop was raided, while its owner and her husband were arrested; activists and ordinary people were stopped and taken away in Causeway Bay on the 37th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown; […]