Hong Kong protest group facing investigation by police

Protesters take part in a rally in Hong Kong (Vincent Yu/AP)

Hong Kong police are reportedly investigating the group that organises an annual protest march marking the semi-autonomous territory’s handover to China for possible violation of the national security law.

Police are gathering evidence and could take action against the Civil Human Rights Front, which holds the July 1 march each year and also organised some of the bigger political protests that roiled the city in 2019, Police Commissioner Raymond Siu Chak-yee told Ta Kung Pao newspaper in an interview.