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The Hong Kong government issued a press release stating that the police's enforcement actions against Stand News were taken strictly in accordance with the law and evidence-based. The statement emphasized that freedom of speech and press is protected by the Basic Law and the Hong Kong Bill of Rights , but freedom of speech and press is not ...
The Hong Kong 47 are a group of 47 pro-democracy advocates in Hong Kong charged with conspiracy to commit subversion under the Hong Kong national security law.. On 6 January 2021, 55 activists, former legislators, social workers and academics were arrested by the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force under the national security law over their organisation and participation ...
The Decision of the National People's Congress on Establishing and Improving the Legal System and Enforcement Mechanisms for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to Safeguard National Security [1] is a congressional resolution passed by the third session of the 13th National People's Congress on 28 May 2020.
September–November. December. Apart from protests on 1 October—the Chinese National Day—most of the significant events of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests in October 2020 took place away from the streets, and many of them outside Hong Kong and China. The threat to protests posed by the national security law was exacerbated by continued ...
Hong Kong 12, [1] [2] [3] or 12 Hongkongers, [4] are the twelve Hong Kong protesters, previously arrested by the Hong Kong police, detained by the Chinese authorities in 2020 on sea after a failed attempt to flee to Taiwan. In a post on Chinese social media dated August 26, 2020, the China Coast Guard claimed that Guangdong authorities had ...
The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 (HKHRDA) (S. 1838; Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 116–76 (text)) is a United States federal law that requires the U.S. government to impose sanctions against mainland China and Hong Kong officials considered responsible for human rights abuses in Hong Kong, and requires the United States Department of State and other agencies ...
By William James and Greg Torode. LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) -The rule of law in Hong Kong is profoundly compromised in areas of the law where the government has strong opinions, a British judge ...
On 22 February 2021, Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, proposed that Hong Kong's governance had to be in the hands of "patriots".Observers considered it possible that the definition of "patriot" would require candidates for public office to embrace the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, as also suggested by Hong Kong Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland ...