Recent court judgements have freed Hong Kong authorities to use national security powers to deploy tough colonial-era laws in a crackdown against opposition groups, alarming activists and lawyers in the city. Police have launched investigations into acts that took place before the national security law was imposed a year ago, despite assurances by Beijing and Hong Kong that the financial hub's legislation would not be retroactive. "The past is the future," said Simon Young, a pr
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Following are reactions to the details of draft national security legislation for Hong Kong that were unveiled by Beijing on Saturday.
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Following are reactions to the details of draft national security legislation for Hong Kong that were unveiled by Beijing on Saturday.
Beijing on Tuesday unveiled new national security laws for Hong Kong that will punish crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison, heralding a more authoritarian era for China's freest city.
Beijing on Tuesday unveiled new national security laws for Hong Kong that will punish crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison, heralding a more authoritarian era for China's freest city.
Beijing on Tuesday unveiled new national security laws for Hong Kong that will punish crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison, heralding a more authoritarian era for China's freest city.
Temporary order forbids publishing of personal information about the police and their families, including their photos.
The Chinese Communist Party’s new security law has criminalized any actions it deems to be subversion, secession, terrorism, and collusion with foreign entities in Hong Kong. The law spells an abrupt end to the political freedoms that Hong Kongers used to enjoy. Authorities Friday raided the offices
Temporary order forbids publishing of personal information about the police and their families, including their photos.
Beijing on Tuesday unveiled new national security laws for Hong Kong that will punish crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison, heralding a more authoritarian era for China's freest city.
A proposed new law that tightens patriotic loyalty tests for Hong Kong politicians could also ensnare the city's judges, further threatening its vaunted judicial independence, say legal scholars, lawyers and diplomats.
Hong Kong police arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai and raided the offices of his flagship newspaper, Apple Daily, under the city's national security law.
Beijing didn’t build Hong Kong’s world-class economy. It inherited it. And China's mishandling of that gift is so ham-fisted, one is tempted to think that the Chinese leadership really doesn’t care if “it kills the goose that lays the golden eggs.”
Some businesses and transport services have also closed, per Reuters.
Beijing on Tuesday unveiled new national security laws for Hong Kong that will punish crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison, heralding a more authoritarian era for China's freest city. China's parliament passed the detailed legislation
The new Hong Kong security law could give Beijing, China, fresh tools to silence its critics abroad.
Beijing on Tuesday unveiled new national security laws for Hong Kong that will punish crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison, heralding a more authoritarian era for China's freest city.
Police on Thursday gave a rare green light to the demonstration, organized by the Civil Human Rights Front, the group that called the million-strong marches in the summer.
Despite having a distinct language, identity, and culture, the city has never been in full control of its development and future.
The tabloid has come under increasing pressure since its owner and staunch Beijing critic, Jimmy Lai, was arrested last year under the contentious legislation.
China arrests 12 fleeing Hong Kong by speedboat: city police
The 12 Hong Kong people arrested at sea by mainland authorities last month were separatists, a spokeswoman for China's foreign ministry said on Sunday, in response to her U.S. counterpart's characterisation of the arrest as a deterioration of human rights.
The Shenzhen city police said the 12 Hongkongers were under criminal detention on suspicion of illegally crossing the border
Beijing is using dismissals, arrests, and a repressive new law to curtail students and professors rights.
The paper, published in June 2014, signaled Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s determination to tame political defiance in the former British colony, which had kept its own laws and freedoms.
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The unusually broad opposition to the rendition bill displayed on Sunday came amid a series of government moves to deepen links between southern mainland China and Hong Kong.
As China moves to strengthen its bond with the city of 7.5 million people, the extradition law is just one of several potential flash points.
Carrie Lam pledged to move the territory out of its ongoing impasse, but she did not meet protesters’ demands.
Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers and activists rejected a new apology Tuesday by the city's leader over a highly unpopular extradition bill, demanding that she quit and that the legislation be scrapped completely.
Hong Kong's police commissioner says only people who committed violence will be charged with rioting during clashes between police and protesters outside the legislature on Wednesday, in an apparent attempt to defuse widespread public anger over aggressive police tactics. It included the use of
Latest on the protests in Hong Kong over proposed extradition legislation (all times local):
Lam "apologised to the people of Hong Kong for this and pledged to adopt a most sincere and humble attitude to accept criticisms and make improvements in serving the public," the statement added.
Across the issues, protesters have increasingly held up signs expressing a broader wish: a yearning for greater democracy
After days of sustained protests, Hong Kong’s government said it would delay plans for a bill that would allow fugitives to be transferred to mainland China.
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Tens of thousands of people marched on Hong Kong's parliament on Sunday to demand the scrapping of proposed extradition rules that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial - a move which some fear puts the city's core freedoms at risk.
A Chinese official has called western criticism of a Hong Kong extradition bill “irresponsible” and says foreign countries have no right to intervene in China’s affairs
HONG KONG, June 21- Thousands of black-clad protesters blocked roads and surrounded police headquarters in Hong Kong on Friday in the latest demonstrations over an extradition bill that has triggered violent protests and plunged the Chinese-ruled city into crisis. Groups of mostly students wearing hard hats, goggles and face masks set up roadblocks and...
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she had never asked the Chinese government to let her resign to end the Chinese-ruled city's political crisis, responding to a Reuters report about a recording of her saying she would step down if she could.
Thousands of protesters blocked entry to Hong Kong's government headquarters Wednesday, delaying a debate over a legislative proposal that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China. The protest, which follows a weekend demonstration that drew hundreds of thousands of people opposed to the extradition amendments, reflects growing apprehension about relations with the Communist Party-ruled mainland.
Violent clashes broke out after several thousand people marched in Hong Kong against traders from mainland China in what is fast becoming a summer of unrest in the semi-autonomous territory. After issuing a warning, police on Saturday moved forward to disperse the crowd of mostly young protesters who
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the extradition bill that sparked the Chinese-ruled city's biggest crisis in decades is dead and that government work on the legislation had been a "total failure", but critics accused her of playing with words.
Hong Kong's top official doubled down on a contentious plan to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland a day after hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding it be scrapped and she resign in the biggest demonstration to shake the former British colony in years.
Hong Kong police and protesters faced off early Monday as authorities began trying to clear the streets of a few hundred who remained near the city...
Thousands of protesters blocked entry to Hong Kong's government headquarters Wednesday, delaying a legislative session on a proposed extradition bill that has heightened fears over greater Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the semiautonomous territory.
All but a handful of protesters in Hong Kong have gone home, but the crisis that brought hundreds of thousands into the streets to oppose an extradition bill is far from over.
The demonstration took place three days before the semiautonomous Chinese territory's government plans to bring the bill to the full legislature.
Hong Kong's government has indefinitely delayed the second round of debate on an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial for the first time, after chaotic protests by tens of thousands of people. Hong Kong residents, as well as foreign and Chinese nationals
Hong Kong was plunged into a fresh political crisis on Sunday night after more than half a million people took to the streets to thwart a proposed extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China to face trial.
Anger over an extradition bill leads to mass demonstrations in Hong Kong, filling streets and shutting down the airport.
The Latest on the controversy over Hong Kong's extradition laws (all times local): 5:30 p.m.
Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she has caused "unforgivable havoc" by igniting the political crisis engulfing the city and would quit if she had a choice, according to an audio recording of remarks she made last week to a group of businesspeople.
Leader Carrie Lam refuses to withdraw law, which critics fear could be abused by Beijing
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If we abandon them now, we sacrifice real moral and strategic leverage.
Hong Kong's most popular legislator is devoted to the city's young protesters, who have nicknamed him "God Kwong."
Recent court judgements have freed Hong Kong authorities to use national security powers to deploy tough colonial-era laws in a crackdown against opposition groups, alarming activists and lawyers in the city.
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Experts predict the authorities could now turn their attention to foreign media in the city
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