& #39;Being young is a sin in #HK.& #39; Police say 360 arrests yesterday (as of 9:30pm last night). The vast majority of arrestees were young people. Important to recognize that HK is in the midst of a full-scale crackdown even before the impending & #39;national security& #39; laws are enacted.

Protesting is also a sin in #HK. All protests have been banned for weeks. Those who do protest are attacked by police. On public health grounds tho there& #39;ve been almost no local coronavirus cases for weeks & large numbers of people are gathering in all kinds of other situations.

The basic human right to peaceful assembly has been effectively suspended in #HK, at least through #June4 but very likely indefinitely. W at least 360 arrests yesterday, at least 817 have been arrested since protests resumed on Apr 21 after a 3week hiatus.

The vast majority of those 817 arrests have been for & #39;unlawful assembly& #39; (ie, just being there). This charge is used to remove people from the streets (ie, crush protests); few are put on trial for it. The 817 arrests include 360 arrests yesterday, 193 on May 24 & 230 on May 10.

Now, in all, at least 8,898 protesters arrested since June 9, 2019. (The 817 in the past month represents 9% of all arrests.) Of those 8,898, 1,385 have so far been put on trial, 41 convicted (32 from guilty pleas), 19 sentenced to prison & 5 to juvenile rehabilitation centre

In case you don& #39;t recognize the origin of the drawing at the top of this thread, it comes from this scene yesterday: the arrest of schoolgirls. The image is circulating widely on #HK social media & represents to many HK people the depths to which the regime has stooped.