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Hong Kong’s corrections department has condemned an op-ed written by a top legal scholar about a new rule denying early release to national security convicts, calling his comments “misleading.” The Correctional Services Department (CSD) said in a statement) on Wednesday that the op-ed by Johannes Chan included “unfounded and misleading remarks” about arrangements for national security offenders in prison custody. The statement came after Chan, the former dean of the University of Hong Kong’s law faculty, wrote in Ming Pao about how recent security legislation, known locally as Article 23, had ...
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More than 80 per cent of Hongkongers think people should be able to publicly criticise the government if they disagree with the authorities’ actions, a survey has found. US think tank Pew Research Center on Monday released results of a questionnaire that surveyed adults in East Asia – specifically Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan – on their views on government criticism. In Hong Kong, 81 per cent of the 2,000-odd people surveyed said they believed that people who disagreed with what the government was doing should be able to publicly criticise the authorities. Fifteen per cent said the...
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Hong Kong leader John Lee has said economic growth will be the focus of his third Policy Address after the enactment of a homegrown security law in March laid the groundwork for the city’s stability. Speaking during a regular press conference on Tuesday, Lee said the government would organise more than 40 consultation hearings including two on-the-ground meetings with residents ahead of the annual policy address, expected to be delivered in October. “As the government has completed [legislating] safeguarding national security and governance at the district level, we are confident in the overal...
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Hong Kong’s chief secretary has compared patriotic education to dating a woman, saying that getting to know and understand a partner is essential to fall in love with them. Speaking on a Commercial Radio programme on Saturday, the city’s number two leader Eric Chan said the government would not “hard sell” patriotic education because loving a country or a person must “come from the heart.” “Simply put, it is like young people dating. First, you have to get to know the girlfriend. If you don’t even know them, how can you love them?” he said in Cantonese. “Then, you get married… you will love th...
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Beijing’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong has accused the US of “persecutory delusion” after Washington extended the city’s “emergency status,” citing “recent actions” taken by China. The Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong released a statement on Thursday warning the US to stop interfering in the city’s affairs. “The US has again generalised the concept of national security to delusionally claim that Hong Kong’s situation poses a threat to US security, foreign policy and economy,” the Chinese statement read. “[US] persecutory delusion is getting worse.” The off...
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Monday marked 27 years since Hong Kong returned from British to Chinese rule. This year also marked the first Handover anniversary since the city passed the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, a locally-legislated security law more commonly known as Article 23. Celebrations for the 27th Handover anniversary began on Monday morning, with top government officials and other guests wearing patriotic pins which featured the Chinese and Hong Kong flags at a ceremony and reception in Admiralty. Among those on the front row of the flag-raising ceremony were Chief Executive John Lee; former leade...
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Hong Kong saw brief, solo demonstrations on the anniversary of the city’s return to China, when streets that crowds of protesters once marched through were instead filled with police on the public holiday. Outside Sogo department store in Causeway Bay, an elderly man surnamed Ng held up handwritten signs on Monday afternoon with arrest figures related to the protests in 2019. “[Fighting for] freedom and democracy is not a crime,” one of the signs read. Ng, a member of a protest group that formed after the Umbrella Movement civil disobedience campaign in 2014, told local newspaper Ming Pao that...
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Core members of the Hong Kong government taskforce behind the legislation of a homegrown security law are among 502 people named in the annual honours list. Pro-Beijing scholar Lau Siu-kai is among five to receive the top medal. On Monday – the 27th anniversary of the Handover – the government unveiled this year’s honours list, recognising people who have made “significant contributions” to the city. Among the recipients were officials in charge of the legislation of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance – known locally as Article 23 – including the government’s new PR head Apollonia Li...
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The principle of One Country, Two Systems – while “tested on all fronts” since China resumed sovereignty in 1997 – remains the “best institutional arrangement” for Hong Kong’s long-term prosperity and stability, Chief Executive John Lee has said on the 27th anniversary of the Handover. The policy that allowed Hong Kong to maintain a capitalist system while being part of socialist China was a “great innovation of socialism with Chinese characteristics” and the “best solution” to the historical issues of Hong Kong, Lee wrote in a 6,574-word article published on Monday. Monday marked 27 years sin...
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Dentist Lee Ying-chi, one of the first people arrested for alleged sedition under Hong Kong’s homegrown security law, was reportedly taken away by the police on the 27th anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule. Police did not respond to HKFP’s questions on Monday as to whether Lee was arrested, stating only that they “will take appropriate action in accordance with the law depending on the situation.” A group of men – who appeared to be plainclothes police officers – stopped Lee at Wan Chai MTR station on Monday morning, before taking her into a room next to the station control room, ...
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