Hong Kong police raid Tiananmen memorial museum

Top three leaders of vigil organizer charged with 'subversion'

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Police collect a cutout of the Goddess of Democracy at the June Fourth Museum as they search the museum after four members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China were arrested, in Hong Kong on Sept. 9. © Reuters

KENJI KAWASE, Nikkei Asia chief business news correspondent

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong police on Thursday raided the city's museum commemorating the 1989 crackdown in China and apprehended the fifth and last remaining leader at large of the pro-democracy group that organizes the annual Tiananmen Square vigil.

The other four core members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which operates the June Fourth Museum, had been arrested the day before on alleged violation of the national security law.

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