Books have been removed from public libraries while slogans and anthems are now banned. FMTNews NationalSecurityLaw China HongKong
Mainland Chinese Communist Party officials and Hong Kong officials at the launch on July 8.
The legislation gives its agents, operating openly in the global financial hub for the first time, enforcement powers. Luo Huining, head of China’s Liaison Office in the city, Beijing’s top representative office, said the office was “the gatekeeper of national security” and people who loved China and Hong Kong welcomed it.
Critics fear it will crush coveted freedoms in the Chinese-ruled city, while supporters say it will bring stability after a year of sometimes violent protests that plunged the former British colony into its biggest crisis in decades. Books by some pro-democracy activists and politicians have been removed from public libraries. The “Liberate Hong Kong! Revolution of our times” slogan is now illegal.
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