Hong Kong lawmakers pass new national security law, giving government more power to curb dissent
by Kanis Leung
Mar 19, 2024
2 minutes
Hong Kong lawmakers passed a new national security law on Tuesday that grants the government more power to quash dissent, widely seen as the latest step in a sweeping political crackdown that was triggered by pro-democracy protests in 2019.
The legislature passed the Safeguarding National Security Bill during a special session Tuesday. It comes on top of a similar law imposed by four years ago, which
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