The Hong Kong authorities charged 47 opposition <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/asia/hong-kong-exiles-and-inmates-dst-hnk-intl/index.html" target="_blank">activists</a> with violating the city’s national security legislation on Sunday, in the <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/05/asia/hong-kong-national-security-law-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank">biggest</a> application of the law since it was <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/05/asia/hong-kong-national-security-law-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank">imposed</a> by Beijing last year.

Those charged with "conspiracy to commit subversion" were among 53 people