Hong Kong police search pollster's office days after security law introduced


Police stand guard outside the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Hong Kong police searched the office of an independent political pollster on Friday, 10 days after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation that has sent a chill across the former British colony. - AFP

HONG KONG, July 11 (Reuters): Hong Kong police searched the office of an independent political pollster on Friday (July 10), 10 days after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation that has sent a chill across the former British colony.

The raid came ahead of weekend primary elections for which pollster Robert Chung's Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI) is a co-organiser.

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