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Hong Kong police called to immediately release bookstore owners, who were former journalists

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Hong Kong's police raided two bookstores and arrested five people on suspicion of selling what they claimed to be “seditious” books in the latest sign of the city's widening crackdown on the publishing industry under its sweeping national security law.