Hong Kong police made their first arrests under a new national security law, arresting at least two protesters for carrying flags and signs calling for Hong Kong’s independence.
imposed by China’s central government, arresting at least two protesters Wednesday for carrying flags and signs calling for Hong Kong’s independence.
The law makes secessionist, subversive, or terrorist activities illegal, as well as foreign intervention in the city’s internal affairs. Any person taking part in secessionist activities, such as shouting slogans or holding up banners and flags urging for the city’s independence, is in violation of the law regardless of whether violence is used.
The law’s passage Tuesday further blurs the distinction between the legal systems of semi-autonomous Hong Kong, which maintained aspects of British law after the 1997 handover, and the mainland’s authoritarian Communist Party system. Critics say the law effectively ends the “one country, two systems” framework under which Hong Kong was promised a high degree of autonomy.
Hong Kong’s police force had said they would consider as illegal any flag or banner raised by protesters deemed to be promoting Hong Kong’s separation from China or expressing support for independence for Tibet, Xinjiang and the self-governing island democracy of Taiwan that China claims as its own. “What happened recently in Hong Kong has shown a deviation from the right track of the ‘one country, two systems’ ,” Zhang told reporters Wednesday.
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