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The Hong Kong government has proposed allowing the chief executive to certify any criminal act as a national security case, in a legal update that would be binding on the courts.
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The Hong Kong government has proposed allowing the chief executive to certify any criminal act as a national security case, in a legal update that would be binding on the courts.
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The future of HK: 1984 world
The omened future of HK had been long foretold in the year 1984 when the Join Declaration was signed between PRC and UK. WHY that year? CCP knew the BEST about the 1984 Orwellian world described in the famous novel within a communist dictatorship context. Did UK and the rest of the world read the omen?
The forgotten lesson is that no communist regime ever lives up to their promises. CCP never honour any autonmy promises to the Tibetans and the Uyghurs. The 'autonomy' promises were mirrages in the desert. Article 23 in HK os a mirror proudct of the Articles 17 for Tibet.
The recent case that involved a German Tibetan activitist could enter PRC and travelled freely but he was intercepted and interrogated by HK's Immigration before being deported revealed that CCP adopts a more stringent approach to HK than Tibet. The hawks and hardliners within CCP are eager to isolate HK. It is how they want to show the REAL intention about Taiwan if they use military forces on Taiwan AS WELL AS other countries. PRC is proactively behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine because both Putin and Xi are hawkish hardlining nationalistic communists who proactively seeks to seize back their 'lost glory' from the fall of the Berlin wall.
The rapid passing of Articles 23 in HK were the official last nail that sealed the coffin of HK as signal of ending of Deng's era. In Xi's eyes, the Western world is once again the 'evil foreign powers' that 'obstruct' the rise of PRC in the heated political and economic competitions in the global geo-monopoly games.
Former Hong Kong bookstore begins new chapter in upstate New York, July 30, 2024
From 2021 to 2022, Hong Kong experienced its biggest population drop since record-keeping began more than 60 years ago. Tens of thousands left because of strict COVID-19 policies and a crackdown on civil liberties by Beijing. Special correspondent Christopher Booker spent time with an American couple part of this exodus and reports on their journey for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS NewsHour
Hong Kong police have apprehended a 62-year-old man over suspected “offences in connection with seditious intention,” marking the eighth arrest under the new security law in a case linked to jailed human rights activist Chow Hang-tung.
More than three years after they were arrested, 16 democrats who pleaded not guilty in a landmark national security case finally heard their verdicts from Hong Kong’s High Court. They are among 47 defendants in the case, of whom 31 pleaded guilty. Most of the 47 have been held in custody since February 28, 2021.
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The Beijing-controlled Legislative Council in Hong Kong passed a new security law on March 19, 2024, that eliminates the last vestiges of fundamental freedoms in the city
"The Safeguarding National Security Ordinance covers treason; insurrection and seditious acts; theft of state secrets and espionage; sabotage; and external interference. Article 23 of the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s de facto constitution since the United Kingdom transferred its sovereignty of the city to China, stipulates that the Hong Kong government should enact a law that safeguards national security. Hong Kong people have consistently opposed such legislation since at least 2003, when half a million people marched against it. No genuine public consultation took place during the legislative process, Human Rights Watch said. After Beijing imposed the National Security Law on the city in June 2020, it dismantled the city’s pro-democracy movement by detaining and prosecuting elected representatives and thousands of peaceful protesters, eliminated civil society groups and independent labor unions, and shuttered its most popular pro-democracy newspaper, among other measures. In February, the Hong Kong government conducted a four-week “public consultation” on Article 23 legislation and claimed that 98.6 percent of the submissions supported the proposal. It dismissed submissions and statements from international human rights groups and overseas Hong Kong activists and groups – over 100,000 Hong Kongers have fled the city – as “deliberate smears." The new law already has had a chilling effect on free expression. Local media reported that US- funded news outlet, Radio Free Asia, planned to withdraw from Hong Kong by the end of March. The ordinance will further devastate human rights beyond those curtailed by the National Security Law. Its provisions contravene human rights guarantees enshrined in the Basic Law, and violate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which is incorporated into Hong Kong’s legal framework via the Basic Law and expressed in the Bill of Rights Ordinance. The Australian, UK, and US governments, the European Union, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights have all publicly expressed concerns about the law."
China tightens grip on Hong Kong with passage of strict law punishing dissent, March 20, 2024
China criticized the West for questioning Hong Kong's new national security law. The once mostly autonomous city is now led by legislators entirely handpicked by Beijing and critics say Article 23 is a death blow to whatever independence the city still had. Nick Schifrin discussed the law and what it means for Hong Kong with Anna Kwok of the Hong Kong Democracy Council. PBS NewsHour
Hong Kong’s new national security law, word by word, March 20, 2024
Hong Kong has passed a new national security law that many worry will have a chilling effect on the region's journalists, academics and entrepreneurs. Andrew Chang breaks down the legislation's key words and phrases to understand why it's so controversial. CBC News