Hong Kong passes new “security law”
On 19 March, the Hong Kong Legislative Council, now completely devoid of oppositional voice, unanimously passed a new security law. In addition to the National Security Law imposed on Hong Kong in 2020 by Beijing, new offences have been created — treason, insurrection and sabotage which are punishable by up to life; imprisonment, secession, sedition, subversion against the Chinese government, external interference, theft of state secrets and espionage. The oppositional forces of the 2019 uprising have already been decimated, with hundreds of activists in jail, either convicted or awaiting...