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Beijing and Hong Kong have said that the US has “smeared” Hong Kong’s law enforcement actions after Washington published a report stating that the city had “significant human rights issues.” The 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released by the US Department of State on Monday was “unfounded and biased,” the Hong Kong government said in a statement on Tuesday night. ‘Arbitrary detention’ The annual report claimed that there were credible reports of arbitrary arrest and detention or detainees in Hong Kong under the Beijing-imposed national security law and other legislation. It cit...
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A team established to rebut criticism of Hong Kong’s new security law will continue to operate, the government has said, citing continued “misinformation and slanders from time to time.” In a written response to questions raised by pro-Beijing lawmaker Starry Lee, the Security Bureau said there remained a “need for the continued operation of the ‘Response and RebuttalTeam’.” Authorities announced on January 25 that a special team would be set up to respond and rebut “smears” against new security legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law, days before they launched a one-month public consult...
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Hong Kong held a raft of events across the city on Monday to mark National Security Education Day, with a top Beijing official saying the city should prioritise economic development after the recent passage of a new security law. At Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, a colourful carnival featured exhibitions about national security and the police’s counter-terrorism vehicles. Chan Kwai-lan, an insurance worker in her 40s volunteering at the carnival, said the city’s efforts to safeguard national security were “good, very good.” “At least everyone is living in peace and working happily, and the eco...
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Hong Kong has a “bright future” after the enactment of a new national security law, Beijing’s top man on the city’s affairs has said, as he hit back at criticism of the law. Xia Baolong, the director of Beijing’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (HKMAO), on Monday hailed the recent legislation of the new security law as a “historical mission,” as he addressed city officials at the opening ceremony of Hong Kong’s National Security Education Day. Separate to the 2020 Beijing-imposed security law, the homegrown Safeguarding National Security Ordinance targets treason, insurrection, sabotage, ex...
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Hong Kong’s No. 2 official has highlighted the link between China’s national security and the safety of Hong Kong and the general public during a speech to celebrate the city’s 9th National Security Education Day. To mark the event, the Security Bureau’s six disciplined services kicked off proceedings on Monday with a flag-raising ceremony at the Police College, which Chan officiated. “The solemn flag-raising ceremony today further highlights our love and loyalty to our country and nation. It enhances patriotic awareness, national identity, and the conscious effort to safeguard national securi...
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US and Canadian authorities’ calls for caution when travelling to Hong Kong following the enactment of new security legislation amounted to “political manoeuvres” and “twisted remarks,” the city’s government has said. The Hong Kong government on Saturday “strongly condemned” the US and Canada after the two countries warned travellers about “arbitrary enforcement of local laws” under the Beijing-imposed national security law and the newly passed Safeguarding National Security Ordinance. In the Saturday statement, a government spokesperson defended the laws, saying that the new legislation targe...
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The Hong Kong government will step up national security education through activities organised by disciplinary forces, schools and community groups, Chief Secretary Eric Chan has said, as he warned the city to be cautious about “soft resistance.” Challenges to national security in Hong Kong were “constantly changing,” and “anti-China forces” would not “give up easily,” Hong Kong’s No.2 official Chan said in an interview with Beijing-backed newspaper Wen Wei Po published on Friday. Hong Kong’s domestic security law, known colloquially as Article 23, which came into force last month, empowers th...
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Hong Kong’s customs chief has said authorities will step up measures to prevent items threatening national security from entering the city, following the recent enactment of new security legislation. Commissioner of Customs and Excise Louise Ho said in an interview with Cable TV on Saturday that the agency would revise its guidelines and step up training for frontline staff to better identify articles that could endanger national security. When asked whether Apple Daily newspapers or books on military affairs would be considered seditious publications, Ho said it depended on the person’s inten...
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The US is to enact new visa restrictions upon multiple Hong Kong officials in light of what it deems a crackdown on rights and freedoms. A Friday statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that – over the past year – Beijing has “continued to take actions against Hong Kong’s promised high degree of autonomy, democratic institutions, and rights and freedoms.” It said the recently-enacted homegrown security law, Article 23, has provisions that “both be used to eliminate dissent inside Hong Kong and applied outside of its borders as part of the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China’s] ongo...
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The government has condemned an opinion piece about the city’s “lost freedom” published by the New York Times, the latest letter to media in a campaign to counter critical press coverage of the recently-enacted homegrown security law. In a letter written to the Times’ editor on Wednesday, Secretary for Security Chris Tang claimed the op-ed, titled “Hong Kongers Now Only Whisper About Freedom,” was “extremely misleading.” “We strongly urge The New York Times to ensure that reports concerning Hong Kong arefair and just, and stop making scaremongering remarks,” Tang wrote. Published on Tuesday, t...
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