Freedom is dying in Hong Kong, if anybody cares
People detained by riot police during a march against Hong Kong's new national security law, at the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China from Britain, in Hong Kong, China, on July 1, 2020.You may have been distracted by other things, what with Canada Day celebrations and baseball’s pending return and all. Certainly you would not have been disturbed by anything your government did or said about it.
But who’s kidding whom: The committee, the chief executive, even the police and prosecution services, will all answer to the Central People’s Government in Beijing, whether directly or through a centrally appointed Office for Safeguarding National Security, whose agents would for the first time be permitted to operate in the city, not only legally but with impunity – the law explicitly exempts them from Hong Kong law or law enforcement.
The law applies not only to Hong Kong citizens, but to foreign nationals; not only individuals, but companies and organizations; not only in the city, but anywhere in the world. The penalties run as high as life imprisonment. And interpretation of the law is vested not in the courts, but in the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.
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