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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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The Hong Kong government has condemned Britain’s public service broadcaster over “smearing” the Beijing-imposed security law in an article about the sentencing of 12 Hongkongers convicted of rioting. Published on Saturday, the news piece from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on the sentencing of 12 Hongkongers over the 2019 storming of the city’s legislature, a milestone event during the protests and unrest that year. They received jail terms ranging between 54 and 82 months on Saturday morning. After covering the court case, the article mentioned the national security law, ...
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Hong Kong lawmakers have completed a review of the clauses in the city’s proposed security legislation following six consecutive days of meetings, moving the bill a step closer to being passed into law by the opposition-free legislature. Continuing their meetings on Tuesday, lawmakers on the Bills Committee on Safeguarding National Security Bill and government officials discussed the draft law of Article 23, the city’s homegrown security legislation. Lawmaker Peter Koon questioned officials about a clause in the draft law which states that authorities can deny early release to prisoners convic...
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The Hong Kong government plans to amend a draft bill for the city’s new domestic security law to tighten measures against “absconders,” after lawmakers said the existing proposal was “too lenient.” Presently, the draft bill states that authorities could levy sanctions against an individual charged under the homegrown security law if they do not appear before a court in the six months after they have been issued an arrest warrant. The sanctions include cancelling their passports and prohibiting anybody from providing them with funding. Addressing lawmakers at the Legislative Council on Tuesday,...
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Those who have been arrested under a proposed security law and granted bail, and those who have refused bail and been discharged by police, may be subject to restrictions on their movement, security chief Chris Tang has said. According to the draft of the Safeguarding National Security Bill, suspects accused of endangering national security may be subject to a series of new restrictions, including extending their pre-charge detention time, limiting their access to lawyers, and issuing a movement restriction order for those on bail. According to the bill, those restrictions would be granted by ...
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Cooperating with foreign groups is a “neutral” act and it will not violate Hong Kong’s proposed domestic security law unless it is done via “improper means” and causes an “interference effect,” security chief Chris Tang has said. The remarks came on Sunday, when lawmakers asked questions concerning the proposed new “external interference” offence during a fast-tracked discussion in the Legislative Council (LegCo) about the Safeguarding National Security Bill. The draft bill defines external interference as someone who “collaborates with an external force to do an act” with “intent to bring abo...
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Hongkongers will need a “reasonable defence” for keeping “seditious publications” at home, security chief Chris Tang has said as a lawmaker brought up the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper during a fast-tracked discussion about the city’s impending domestic security law. Legislator Peter Koon asked whether residents would breach the law if they had publications at home that were deemed “seditious,” citing the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper. Its founder, media mogul Jimmy Lai, is current standing in a national security trial in which he faces foreign collusion and sedition charges. “[Apple...
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Hong Kong officials have pushed back against public suggestions that some popular social media platforms and messaging apps should be “banned” under a proposed new security legislation, saying they had “absolutely no intention” in doing so. Secretary for Justice Paul Lam on Wednesday said authorities had no plan to prohibit social media platforms from operating in Hong Kong, after some residents had made the suggestion that “websites such as Facebook and YouTube should be removed from the Hong Kong market.” Lam was addressing lawmakers during a panel on the legislation of the new security law,...
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