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Encroachment of Protesting Rights on the Eve of Beijing's Forced National Security Legislation in Hong Kong
Earlier on, district Councilor Tsui Tsz-kin and pro-democracy activist Tsang Kin-Shing filed two applications for Anti-National Security Law protests to be scheduled on 28 June and 1 July. The Hong Kong Police Force rejected their application, citing the gathering ban as a reason.
The group then filed an appeal, but was refused again by the police on June 27.
On the same day, the police objected the Annual July 1 March organized by Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF). Jimmy Sham, CHRF's convener, condemned the authorities for using the ever-extending gathering ban as an excuse to suppress civil society and the demonstration of public opinion.
Pro-Beijing politians revealed on June 27 the almost certainty for Beijing to pass the National Security Law for Hong Kong on June 28, despite the absence of the details of the legislation to the public. Tam Yiu-chung, Hong Kong’s sole member of the PRC's National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), even said that it is “meaningless” to bring up opposition to the law as Beijing will be discussing the legislation.
Principal lecturer Eric Cheung Tat-ming, a legal expert at the Law Department of the University of Hong Kong, condemned Beijing for keeping Hong Kong in the dark by forcefully implementing the National Security Law in Hong Kong.
Source: Stand News; Apple Daily; RTHK #Jun27
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Encroachment of Protesting Rights on the Eve of Beijing's Forced National Security Legislation in Hong Kong
Earlier on, district Councilor Tsui Tsz-kin and pro-democracy activist Tsang Kin-Shing filed two applications for Anti-National Security Law protests to be scheduled on 28 June and 1 July. The Hong Kong Police Force rejected their application, citing the gathering ban as a reason.
The group then filed an appeal, but was refused again by the police on June 27.
On the same day, the police objected the Annual July 1 March organized by Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF). Jimmy Sham, CHRF's convener, condemned the authorities for using the ever-extending gathering ban as an excuse to suppress civil society and the demonstration of public opinion.
Pro-Beijing politians revealed on June 27 the almost certainty for Beijing to pass the National Security Law for Hong Kong on June 28, despite the absence of the details of the legislation to the public. Tam Yiu-chung, Hong Kong’s sole member of the PRC's National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), even said that it is “meaningless” to bring up opposition to the law as Beijing will be discussing the legislation.
Principal lecturer Eric Cheung Tat-ming, a legal expert at the Law Department of the University of Hong Kong, condemned Beijing for keeping Hong Kong in the dark by forcefully implementing the National Security Law in Hong Kong.
Source: Stand News; Apple Daily; RTHK #Jun27
#NationalSecurityLaw #ProtestRights #Authoritarianism