Tagged: national security law

13th January 2022

‘Colonial wine from new, authoritarian bottles’: Hong Kong re-tools sedition law

The Hong Kong government is expanding its use of a long-dormant sedition law in what some lawyers and democracy advocates say is intensifying a squeeze on press freedom. Evidence of the renewed reliance on...

China

21st July 2021

Hong Kong begins talks on controversial ‘anti-doxxing’ privacy bill

HONG KONG, July 21 (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s legislature, which has no opposition party, begins discussions on Wednesday on privacy laws tackling “doxxing behaviour” that some technology giants fear are so broad and vague...

China

2nd July 2021

Hong Kong policeman was stabbed in “lone wolf” attack- security chief

HONG KONG, July 2 (Reuters) – The 50-year-old man who stabbed a Hong Kong policeman on the anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule on Thursday was a “lone wolf” who committed a...

China

27th May 2021

Hong Kong’s residents are conflicted: Expat community follows a declining trend

The National Security law in Hong Kong implies a tightening grip of communist China over it. The very debatable law which “most likely” aims at dealing with secession, terrorism and subversion and foreign collusions...

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20th May 2021

Hong Kong court denies jury trial to first person charged under national security law

The first person charged under the national security law in Hong Kong will face a trial without jury, the city’s High Court ruled on Thursday, in a landmark decision which marks a departure from...