Landmark trial of Hong Kong 47 gets under way amid tight security

The national security trial of dozens of people — from former pro-democracy legislators to activists and legal scholars — has begun in Hong Kong more than two years after they were arrested in pre-dawn police raids across the territory. The defendants are accused of “subversion” for organising an unofficial primary to choose their candidates for the 2020 Legislative Council election that the government later postponed blaming the coronavirus pandemic. There was a heavy police presence, including officers with dogs, outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts building ahead of the proceedings.

Al Jazeera's Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong

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