In China's state media he is a 'traitor,' the biggest 'black hand' behind last year's huge pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and the head of a new 'Gang of Four' conspiring with foreign nations to undermine the motherland.
The latest arrests, which take the total of those arrested under the new law to 15, were made on suspicion of organising and inciting secession.
China and Taiwan split in 1949 after nationalist forces lost a civil war to Mao Zedong's communists, fleeing to the island which Beijing has since vowed to seize one day, by force if necessary.
