China passes feared security law as campaigners warn 'the city will turn into a secret police state'
China's rubber-stamp parliament unanimously approved the new security law. Beijing was silent on the law's passage which filtered out via Hong Kong media. Critics say it will end the freedoms Hong Kong was granted at 1997 handover.
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