List of Hong Kong national security cases

[19] In its annual report submitted to the U.S. Congress by the United States–China Economic and Security Review Commission on 14 November 2023, a recommendation was made to sanction judges of the city's Court of Final Appeal, including foreign citizens.

[20] Figures who were newly called for being sanctioned, compared to the previous two CECC reports, included Paul Lam Ting-kwok, Sonny Au Chi-kwong, Raymond Siu Chak-yee, judge Amy Chan Wai-Mun, prosecutor Jonathan Man Tak-ho, and private lawyer Memi Ng.

Kwai Tsing District Councillor Rayman Chow Wai-hung was arrested after police suspected him breaching the NSL by inciting secession for holding up the slogan "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time",[36] but released on bail[37] and not charged.

[73][74] Remanded for In the course of investigations connected to Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, a group advocating for foreign countries to impose sanctions on Hong Kong was found by the NSD department of the police to have received, as per non-police sources reported by media, around 10 million HKD.

Ng Wing-tak, a 34-year-old co-founder of online media outlet PPPN International, was arrested by the NSD on 1 October 2020 for conspiracy to injure police officer with intent in December 2019, suspected in connection with the "Dragon Slaying Brigade".

[96] On 3 December, a NSL judge was assigned to the sedition case, meeting a request by prosecution that was based on their argument that the slogans Tam had chanted, including "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times", were subversive.

[110][111] On 14 January 2021, 11 more were arrested by the NSD in connection with the case, including: Daniel Wong, Kowloon City District Councillor;[112] Rono Fok, musician; Cheung Ching-yan, mother of Willis Ho, ex-Secretary General of Hong Kong Federation of Students.

[147][144] On 5 May 2021, four students (Lai Chun-hei, Yuen Ka-him, Chan Ching-hing, Choi Wing-kit) were reportedly arrested on location after sneaking into Po Leung Kuk Laws Foundation College, a secondary school in Tseung Kwan O.

The NSD said the arrested had attempted to plant car bombs, attack cross-harbour tunnels, railways, court buildings, and public facilities across the city, using TATP; in a raid at a hostel in Tsim Sha Tsui, police had confiscated laboratory equipment for making that highly explosive substance.

[13] Pleaded guilty to The National Security Department, on 6 June 2021, arrested a 45-year-old female clerk in Western District and a 17-year-old male secondary student in Sham Shui Po for allegedly having conspired between May and December 2020 to make and spread leaflets supporting Hong Kong independence, and which called for resisting "communisation".

The pressure surged in mid-June 2021, days after the banned 2021 vigil, after Luo Huining, director of the Hong Kong Liaison Office of the Chinese Government, said the call for ending one-party dictatorship undermines the basis of "one country, two systems", without naming the Alliance.

[203] On 8 and 9 September 2021, vice-chairwoman Chow Hang-tung, and four other standing committee members, Simon Leung Kam-wai, Tsui Hon-kwong, Tang Ngok-kwan and Chan To-wai, were arrested for failing to provide information.

[225] On 20 September 2021, convenor Wong Yat-chin, secretary-general Chan Chi-sum, and former spokeswoman Jessica Chu were arrested by the national security unit of the police, for allegedly inciting subversion, as per local news reports.

[258][259] Koo Sze-yiu, 75-year-old veteran activist who had been jailed at least 11 times since 2000,[260] was arrested by the NSD at his home in Sham Shui Po[261] for inciting subversion on 4 February 2022, ahead of his planned protest against the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Other posts claimed the government is insistent on launching a health code so that it can collect residents' personal information as "revenge" for the 2019 protest, and advised students to "pretend they are ill as a side effect of vaccination".

[274] A 59-year-old male combat coach and his 62-year-old female assistant of a martial club were arrested by NSD police on 20 March 2022 in a training unit in Tsim Sha Tsui for alleged "acts with seditious intention", and were detained for investigation.

[289][290] The arrested further included pastor Garry Pang, who, as stated by the prosecution, also ran a YouTube channel on 2019 protest-related trials, and a female surnamed Chiu; the two were charged for alleged sedition and remanded in custody, while the four others were released on bail.

[298] On 23 May 2022, a 31-year-old man was arrested in a flat in Wong Tai Sin by the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau of the Police Force, for allegedly inciting to cause grievous bodily harm, and making explosives.

[315] [316] Two men, both reportedly civil servants aged 34 and 36, were arrested on 1 August 2022 by the NSD under the sedition law on suspicion of publishing social media posts that were said to have promoted "feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of the population of Hong Kong and incite the use of violence".

Later that night, according to police and local media, a harmonica player was arrested after playing several songs, including the British national anthem and Glory to Hong Kong, for committing "seditious acts".

[322][323] Two men were arrested on 27 September 2022, suspected of publishing posts on social platforms to "disseminate seditious messages that promote feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of the population of Hong Kong and incite the use of violence".

[348][349] A man aged 49 was arrested in Aberdeen for sedition and doxxing after allegedly publishing social media posts which "insulted" the Chinese national anthem and disclosing the personal data of police officers and their family members without consent.

[365] On 9 March 2023, Elizabeth Tang, general secretary of the International Domestic Workers Federation and former chief executive of pro-democracy Confederation of Trade Unions,[366] was arrested by the NSD after visiting her imprisoned husband, former opposition lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan, at Stanley Prison.

She was jailed the same day for six months after having pleaded guilty to another charge under the sedition law, which arose from a large banner having been found at her living place after her arrest, reportedly having been ordered from the United States for her intended one-person protest to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

[380] Six people have been arrested by the NSD on 6 June 2023 for allegedly conspiring to forge signatures, reportedly of a protester, on documents, two of whom were also suspected of repeatedly publishing posts on social media with a "seditious intention" to bring "hatred against the government, advocated Hong Kong independence and incited the use of violence".

[408][409] A 35-year-old male surnamed Tsang was arrested on 18 January 2024 in Sha Tin by national security police, and charged with sedition over posts he had made on the LIHKG forum which were alleged to have incited hatred towards the Hong Kong and central government.

[424] A 36-year-old male surnamed Li was arrested on 21 January 2025 in Eastern District, and charged under the National Security Ordinance with sedition over posts he had made on Facebook which were alleged to have incited hatred, contempt or disaffection against Hong Kong.

[435] At a press conference on 14 December, police said that they had issued arrest warrants pertaining to national security charges against five further overseas activists, with the same offer of HK$1 million for each of the wanted: Simon Cheng, Frances Hui, Joey Siu, Johnny Fok, and Tony Choi.

Policed added that Fok and Choi, of YouTube channel Tuesdayroad Media, were involved in a case related to false claims of helping young protesters flee, and scammed them and their family members out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The NSD met several pro-democracy groups, including the League of Social Democrats (LSD) on 28 June, which then announced not to hold any protest on 1 July, the first time in 25 years since Hong Kong was placed under Chinese rule.