[HONG KONG] Hong Kong's arrest warrants for activists overseas show that exile and foreign nationality are no protection against the city's sweeping national security law, one of the targeted dissidents has warned. Read more at The Business Times.
It is the first time authorities have invoked the law's extraterritorial jurisdiction to go after activists not in Hong Kong.
The city's pro-democracy camp has come under sustained attack since Beijing imposed the security law last month - a move China's leaders described as a"sword" hanging over the head of its critics. Since the law came into effect, a dozen leading pro-democracy campaigners have been disqualified from running in legislative elections, and four students - one of them only aged 16 - have been arrested on suspicion of"inciting succession" on social media.
"That Hong Kong has no place for even such moderate views like ours underscores the absurdity of Chinese Communist rule."
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