Police's National Security Department today arrested a 71-year-old local man in Sheung Shui for “prejudicing of investigation of offences endangering national security” and “doing an act that has a seditious intention with a seditious intention” in contravention of sections 88 and 24 of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance respectively.

Investigations revealed that the arrested man was suspected of disclosing details of a case endangering national security, after assisting with the probe conducted earlier by department officers.

He was also suspected of publishing multiple videos with seditious intention online, with content provoking hatred towards the central authorities, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and the Judiciary.

The man is being detained for further enquiries.

Police took law enforcement actions based on evidence and in accordance with the actual circumstances, and applied section 88 of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance for the first time.