Hong Kong's controversial national security law has been used for the first time to target an American citizen living in the U.S.
during a visit to mainland China last August. All of the wanted activists, with the exception of Chu, are currently in Europe.
The Hong Kong national security law, instituted suddenly on June 30, supersedes the local laws of the semi-autonomous metropolis, criminalizes a wide variety of acts as subversive and has largely been interpreted as“We always knew that when the [Hong Kong] national security law went into effect there was a very troubling and illogical, irrational idea that [the Chinese government] were claiming jurisdiction over anyone who is not even a Hong Kong resident, who is anywhere in the world, doing...
The same day the arrest warrants were issued, Hong Kong’s local government announced it would postpone the city’s legislative elections in September by one year. The city’s leader, Carrie Lam, cited the COVID-19 pandemic as the reasoning behind this move, but opposition critics have called it
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