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Hong Kong police show their new goose step marching style on National Security Education Day at a police school in Hong Kong on April 15.
BEIJING It took just one year for China s national security law to completely remake Hong Kong s decades-old institutions.
Hong Kong s Chief Executive Carrie Lam vowed on the eve of the national security law s implementation last year that it would only target an extremely small minority of crimes, but basic rights and freedoms and most citizens would be protected.
While the absolute number of people brought to trial has indeed been low, the law has been used to arrest people for a broad variety of offenses a strategy legal experts say is designed to create a chilling effect to prevent all future dissent, and discourage political activity, across all levels of civil society.
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