The Communist Party made clear on Friday that the planned law was aimed at quashing the democracy movement.
Pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong vowed on Friday to take to the streets in protest over what they said was China’s fiercest assault on the city’s treasured autonomy with its move to impose a security law.
Sham appealed for millions to again take to the streets, while other activists used internet threads and chat apps to call for protests on Sunday.“Beijing is attempting to silence Hongkongers’ critical voices with force and fear,” Wong said on Twitter, while also expressing defiance.Amnesty International warned the legislation posed “a quasi-existential threat to the rule of law in Hong Kong”, and said it was “an ominous moment for human rights in the city”.
Article 23 of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, says the city must enact a law to prohibit “treason, secession, sedition subversion” against the Chinese government. Wang said Hong Kong’s delays in implementing the security law had forced the Chinese leadership to take action.
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