Hong Kong police accuse mobile game of promoting ‘armed revolution’

A phone displaying the App Store page for the mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire. Ryland Barton/NPR

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HONG KONG — Hong Kong police on Tuesday warned people against downloading and using a gaming app that it says advocates “armed revolution” and the overthrow of the “fundamental system” of Mainland China.

Anyone who downloads or uses the app, or makes in-app purchases in it, would be violating the city’s controversial national security law, the police said in a statement on Tuesday.

The crackdown on the gaming app and its users is

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