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  • Mainland Chinese authorities on Wednesday formally approved the arrests of 12 Hong Kong activists last month while allegedly trying to flee the territory by boat for Taiwan. The group was caught some 70 kilometres (43 miles) southeast of the city on August 23 while trying to escape by boat, Chinese authorities said at the time, adding that they were handed to police in neighbouring Shenzhen. They had since disappeared into China's opaque judicial system, with lawyers struggling to access them and family members expressing fear over their fate. On Wednesday the People's Procuratorate of Yantian District in Shenzhen said it had approved the arrests. Two of them, surnamed Deng and Qiao respectively, were arrested on suspicion of helping the others escape Hong Kong. These likely to refer to the Chinese surnames of detainees Tang Kai-yin and Quinn Moon. The other 10 people -- including suspects surnamed Li and Huang -- were arrested for making illegal border crossings. The case remains under investigation, the statement said. Some of those on board were facing prosecution in Hong Kong for activities linked to last year's huge and often violent pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong has its own internationally respected common law legal system where arrestees are promptly produced after their arrest and tried in open court, but the judicial system on the mainland is a notoriously opaque entity controlled by the Communist Party -- where conviction is all but guaranteed. In June, Beijing imposed a new security law on Hong Kong, announcing it would have jurisdiction for some crimes and that mainland security agents could now openly operate in the city. The prospect of Hong Kongers getting entangled in China's judicial system was the spark that lit the seven months of protests last year. The movement began in response to a plan to allow extraditions to the mainland and soon morphed into wider calls for democracy and greater police accountability. bys/fox
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  • China approves arrest of Hong Kong 'speedboat fugitives'
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