Hong Kong police raided a bookstore run by former journalists on Wednesday ¡ª the latest in a string of crackdowns on independent bookshops.

Officers led a woman in handcuffs to a van and took away several boxes of material from the Have A Nice Stay bookshop.

Police said its National Security Department searched two shops after being alerted to books with ¡°seditious intention¡± found in a shipment from overseas.