HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Hong Kong released additional details of China's sweeping new national security law for the former British colony
on Monday (July 6), saying security forces had overriding authority to
enter and search properties for evidence and stop people from leaving
the city.
Hong Kong returned to China on July 1, 1997, under a “one country, two systems” formula guaranteeing wide-ranging autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland, including an independent judiciary.
But under China’s new legislation, crimes of secession and sedition
will be punishable by up to life in prison, stoking concerns of a much
more authoritarian era in a city which has been racked by anti-China
protests for the past year.
( The Straits Times )
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