Previously more than a hundred students had gathered on campus to protest the cancellation of the graduation ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic
On Monday morning, Hong Kong police detained at least eight graduates of the Chinese University of Hong Kong for trying to promote separatist slogans. This was reported by the Xianggang Lingyi news portal.
On 19 November, more than a hundred students gathered at the university to protest against the cancellation of the graduation ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, they started chanting banned slogans related to the ideas of Hong Kong’s “independence”. The university administration called the police. Employees of the new special unit for national security participated in the investigation of the incident.
Among the detainees was Artur Yun, an activist of the youth radical movement. His flat was searched.