Hong Kong riot police arrested 87 people in various districts on National Day, including 65 men and 22 women, aged between 13 and 65 years. The United States says Hong Kong must honor the rights of assembly, free speech, and other fundamental freedoms, in a statement that denounces the National Day protest arrests by riot police. “We are outraged at the Hong Kong government’s arbitrary arrest of more than 80 people on October 1.? A stable and prosperous Hong Kong depends on honoring the rights of assembly, free speech, and other fundamental freedoms,'' a statement by the US State Department says. “By repressing peaceful public opinion, the Hong Kong government once again shows its complicity with the Chinese Communist Party’s evisceration of Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedoms of its people.

Source: The Standard October 04, 2020 04:52 UTC