i wonder what the government in hong kong and indeed the government in beijing is so frightened of, mr lee. maybe you can tell me. when people are arrested ma chun man was one individual arrested for simply waving banners and wearing slogans on t shirts which call for liberation of hong kong when ngos that defend human rights are forced to close, when university campuses are raided, when teachers are banned from teaching because they re deemed to have sympathy with the pro democracy movement, what are the authorities so scared of? well, first of all, i disagree with the fact that you say that authorities are scared. the authority is basically just carrying out a law. this national security law is not something that s exceptional to hong kong. every country in the world has their own national security law. so if people are trying to jeopardise our national security, then, according
one of the charge that the enforcement agency now lay on apple daily has nothing to do with national security. it has to do with fraud, and apple daily actually lied to the government and misused the land, which is supposed to be used for media purposes and used it for company secretarial purpose. and so i find it very difficult to believe that you would use the word well respected to describe mrjimmy lai. i wonder what the government in hong kong and indeed the government in beijing is so frightened of, mr lee. maybe you can tell me. when people are arrested ma chun man was one individual arrested for simply waving banners and wearing slogans on t shirts which call for liberation of hong kong when ngos that defend human rights are forced to close, when university campuses are raided, when teachers are banned from teaching because they re deemed to have sympathy with the pro democracy movement, what are the authorities so scared of?
the government in beijing is so frightened of, mr lee. maybe you can tell me. when people are arrested ma chun man was one individual arrested for simply waving banners and wearing slogans on t shirts which call for liberation of hong kong when ngos that defend human rights are forced to close, when university campuses are raided, when teachers are banned from teaching because they re deemed to have sympathy with the pro democracy movement, what are the authorities so scared of? well, first of all, i disagree with the fact that you say that authorities are scared. the authority is basically just carrying out a law. this national security law is not something that s exceptional to hong kong. every country in the world has their own national security law. so if people are trying to jeopardise our national security, then, according to law, the enforcement agency has to take actions.
what apple daily did? one of the charge that the enforcement agency now lay on apple daily has nothing to do with national security. it has to do with fraud, and apple daily actually lied to the government and misused the land, which is supposed to be used for media purposes and used it for company secretarial purpose. and so i find it very difficult to believe that you would use the word well respected to describe mrjimmy lai. i wonder what the government in hong kong and indeed the government in beijing is so frightened of, mr lee. maybe you can tell me. when people are arrested ma chun man was one individual arrested for simply waving banners and wearing slogans on t shirts which call for liberation of hong kong when ngos that defend human rights are forced to close, when university campuses are raided, when teachers are banned from teaching because they re deemed to have sympathy with the pro democracy movement, what are the authorities so scared of?
Critics say that the Chinese National Security Law recently extended to Hong Kong erodes freedom of expression and assembly. Chinese administration is now using it to arrest and convict dissenters.