This file photo taken on Aug 18, 2021 shows professor Hui Po-keung attending a press conference at Salesian Missionary House in Hong Kong, to announce the closure of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, established to support democracy protesters. - AFP
HONG KONG (AFP): A Hong Kong scholar who helped run a now-disbanded defence fund for democracy protesters was arrested at the airport under the national security law, two legal sources told AFP on Wednesday (May 11).
Hui Po-keung, a prominent cultural studies scholar, was on his way to take up an academic post in Europe before he was detained on Tuesday (May 10), the sources said, asking not to be named.
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