HONG KONG - A 23-year-old man who allegedly drove his motorcycle into police officers on July 1 during protests became the first person in the special administrative region to be charged with terrorist activities and inciting others with a view to committing secession under a new security law.
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A magistrate at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts directed that the accused, currently in hospital with multiple fractures, be kept in police custody.
At the time of the incident, a flag displaying the message “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” was strapped to the motorcycle being driven by the accused.
The next hearing has been scheduled for July 6.
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Earlier on Friday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor designated six Hong Kong magistrates to handle cases and appeals in relation to the national security law that came into effect on June 30.
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