HONG KONG -- It’s been years since mass arrests all but silenced pro-democracy activism in Hong Kong. But a crackdown on dissent in the semiautonomous Chinese city is still expanding, hitting restaurants, bookstores and other small businesses.

Hong Kong’s last active pro-democracy group, announced its disbandment on Sunday, citing overwhelming political pressure from years of sweeping national security crackdowns.

June 30 marks the fifth anniversary of the implementation of the National Security Law (NSL) for Hong Kong. A spokesperson for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said on Monday that the law has enabled Hong Kong to make a major transition from chaos to order and has laid a solid legal foundation for safeguarding national sovereignty,