No ‘red line’ for approving assemblies but security threats remain: police chief

There is no “red line” set for approving public assemblies, Hong Kong’s police chief has said, while warning that national security risks persisted despite the landmark conviction and imprisonment of organisers behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil for inciting subversion.

The Hong Kong government on Saturday also strongly condemned Western countries, anti-China media, overseas organisations and politicians for launching “malicious attacks” over the trial of the disbanded Hong Kong...