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Dozens of leading Hong Kong democrats charged with subversion in major national security crackdown

Police fire tear gas at protesters during clashes in the Sham Shui Po neighborhood of Hong Kong. [Thomas Peter, Reuters]

Forty-seven Hong Kong democrats and activists were charged on Sunday with conspiracy to commit subversion, in the largest single crackdown on the democratic opposition under a China-imposed national security law.

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