Hong Kong’s Journalist Associations Call for Protection Under New Security Law
Hong Kong —
During the Hong Kong government’s recently ended monthlong public consultation period on a controversial new security law, which wrapped up last week, the city’s two main journalist associations voiced concerns that the law will have “profound” implications for journalists’ ability to do their work.
The proposed law, known locally as Article 23, will be an expansion of a national security law Beijing imposed on the city in 2020, outlawing secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.
It would add treason, insurrection, theft of state secrets and espionage, sabotage endangering national security, and external interference as offenses,…
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