National Security Police Search For Evidence At CUHK

Officers from the police's national security unit entered Chinese University's campus on Friday afternoon as part of an investigation into a protest there on Thursday.

Around a dozen officers took photographs of different parts of the campus and examined what appeared to be signs of graffiti.

Journalists and camera crews following them were told to back off, with officers saying they were carrying confidential documents.

On Thursday, the police said they suspected the protesters, some dressed in graduation gowns and wearing Guy Fawkes masks, had breached the national security law with slogans and banners advocating Hong Kong independence.

The force noted that it was the university that had called in the authorities.

Beijing's liaison office issued a statement on Friday saying it fully supports the police's "decisive action" in relation to the brief protest.

The office said people should only be at university campuses to learn, and not to make trouble and "violate the law".

It claimed that a very small group of people had "intoxicated" students for political gain, adding that these people are "extremely unpopular".

CUHK management and the Education Bureau had also condemned the protest, which came after the university moved Thursday's graduation ceremony online.