Cantopop singer Denise Ho has been released on bail after being arbitrarily detained by Hong Kong police during the city government’s crackdown on a pro-democracy media outlet. Ho, a Canadian citizen, was taken from her home in Hong Kong in the early hours of Dec. 29, according to her Facebook page. The same day, national security police raided the premises of Stand News, a local pro-democracy media outlet, and arrested six of its current and former board members for “conspiracy to publish seditious publications.” Ho is a former Stand News board member. Ho and four other former Stand News board members were released on bail on Dec. 30. “Thank you friends for all your kind messages, I have been released on bail and have returned home safely,” Ho wrote on Twitter. Ho participated in the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the massive anti-Chinese Communist Party pro-democracy protests in 2019 and 2020 that …
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