Hong Kong’s own security law threa • Table.Briefings

Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu (center) at the press conference announcing Hong Kong’s own security law.

Hong Kong’s leadership finally wants its own security law. The consultation paper is vaguely formulated and gives the government leeway to even target foreign critics. The city’s religious freedom has never been more endangered.

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu wants to pass his own national security law for the special administrative region. Consultations on this could be completed by the predominantly Beijing-friendly parliament as early as the end of February.

Hong Kong’s own security law threatens the city’s last freedoms

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