{"id":583801,"date":"2021-07-06T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583801"},"modified":"2021-07-06T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:36:23","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-9-in-connection-with-terrorist-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hong-kong-police-arrest-9-in-connection-with-terrorist-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police arrest 9 in connection with terrorist plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhong-kong-police-arrest-9-in-connection-with-terrorist-plot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2447691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2447691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Confiscated evidence is displayed during a news conference as several people were arrested over the alleged plot to plant bombs around Hong Kong, at the police headquarters in Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Hong Kong police on Tuesday said they arrested nine people on suspicion of engaging in terrorist activity, after uncovering an attempt to make explosives and plant bombs across the city.(AP Photo\/Kin Cheung)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:23 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, July 6, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Police in Hong Kong arrested multiple people in connection with suspected terrorist activity in the city. Authorities confirmed they took nine people into custody Tuesday after uncovering a plot to plant bombs across the city.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/hong-kong-police-arrest-9-in-alleged-bomb-plot-around-city?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fworld%20%28Internal%20-%20World%20Latest%20-%20Text%29\">reports<\/a>, the group intentionally recruited six high school-aged students who planned to leave Hong Kong permanently. Officers also froze around $77,000 worth of assets and seized materials, which could be used to make explosives, in a hostel room police have described as a \u201cbomb-making laboratory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe things they (wanted to) do is, they wanted to produce TATP and use it to attack some of the public facilities in Hong Kong,\u201d stated Senior Supt. Steven Li, Hong Kong Police Force. \u201cIncluding the cross-harbor tunnel, railways, court rooms and even they wanted to lay the bomb in the rubbish bin on the street with a view to maximize the damage caused to the society.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senior Superintendent Li Kwai-wah of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HongKongPolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HongKongPolice<\/a> National Security Department briefed the media on Tuesday on a police operation the day before that foiled an alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/terrorist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#terrorist<\/a> plot. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HongKong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HongKong<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HKSAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HKSAR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NationalSecurity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NationalSecurity<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aPZSFXtuDM\">https:\/\/t.co\/aPZSFXtuDM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DlxgAqPv4B\">pic.twitter.com\/DlxgAqPv4B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China Daily Hong Kong (@CDHKedition) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDHKedition\/status\/1412395514226634753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The city\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam, has said she hopes members of the community will openly condemn threats of violence. She also blamed \u201cideologies\u201d for stemming national security risks and advised those who observe such behaviors to report them to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected terrorist activity follows a sweeping national security law that took affect in Hong Kong last year, which drastically reduced democratic participation in its political system.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tc-energy-to-file-nafta-complaint-with-state-dept\/\">TC Energy To File NAFTA Complaint With State Dept.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confiscated evidence is displayed during a news conference as several people were arrested over the alleged plot to plant bombs around Hong Kong, at the police headquarters in Hong Kong, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}