Recall issued for 38,000 GM vehicles in Canada over software safety glitch
Transport Canada has issued a recall for 38,000 General Motors (GM) vehicles for safety risks related to a software glitch, the agency reported in a notice on Wednesday.
Hong Kong national security police on Thursday arrested a veteran labour activist who is also the wife of an organizer of annual vigils commemorating China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, two people close to her said.
Officers arrested Elizabeth Tang, the wife of Lee Cheuk-yan, outside Stanley Prison on Hong Kong Island but it was unclear why, according to the people who declined to be identified for fear of government retribution.
In a statement late Thursday that did not provide a name, police said they arrested a 65-year-old woman on Hong Kong Island for suspected collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security. It said she was being detained for investigation.
The arrest was seen as part of a crackdown on the city's pro-democracy camp following massive anti-government protests in 2019. Many activists have been jailed or silenced under a sweeping National Security Law imposed by Beijing.
Tang is currently the general secretary of the International Domestic Workers Federation.
She was a former leader of the now-defunct Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, the city's largest pro-democracy trade organization. Before the group's disbandment, it had been on a list of activist groups targeted by pro-Beijing media in the name of national security. Her husband Lee was also a leader.
Lee was also a leader of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which voted to disband in 2021 following the imposition of the security law.
The alliance was best known for organizing large candlelight vigils in Hong Kong on the anniversary of the Chinese military's crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests. Supporters say its closure shows the erosion of freedoms promised to Hong Kong when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
Lee and two other former alliance leaders, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho, were arrested and charged with inciting the subversion of state power under the security law in 2021. The alliance itself was charged with subversion. Lee is now in custody in the prison.
The National Security Law criminalizes secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces to intervene in the city's affairs. Those found guilty can face up to life imprisonment.
Pro-democracy newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai is also facing collusion charges under the law.
In a separate case, national security police on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old woman on suspicion of inciting secession, police said in the statement. She is suspected of publishing online posts that incite Hong Kong independence, they added.
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