Hong Kong releases additional details of China's new national security law saying security forces have overriding authority to search properties for evidence and stop people from leaving the city
Handout picture of Committee for Safeguarding National Security of HKSAR before its first meeting, July 6, 2020.
But under China's new legislation, crimes of secession and sedition will be punishable by up to life in prison, stoking concerns of a much more authoritarian era in a city which has been racked by anti-China protests for the past year.outlawing four national security crimes: subversion, secession, terrorism and colluding with foreign forces.
Since the law went into effect, the government has specified that the popular protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time” has separatist connotations and is thus criminalised. Britain has described the law as a "clear and serious" violation of the 1984 Joint Declaration under which it handed back its colony to China 13 years later and said that London would offer around 3 million residents a path to British citizenship.
Although Prime Minister Boris Johnson describes himself as a "Sinophile," he has also spoken of the need to "stick up for our friends in Hong Kong," straining relations with Beijing.
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