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Chow Hang-tung at the Victoria Park in 2019. Photo from Chow’s Club on Facebook Hong Kong Human rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung, 39, along with five of her supporters, were arrested and imprisoned on May 28, 2024, for publishing seditious posts on social media that allegedly incited hatred against both Hong Kong and mainland Chinese governments. The arrests marked the first application of the newly enacted domestic security law, dubbed Article 23. Chow was the vice-chair of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HK Alliance), the host behind th…