AFP
Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on Thursday marched in protest calling for the immediate repeal of a draconian national security law, as the city s leader warned that the law will increasingly affect journalism, the arts, internet, and education.
Chanting We have no democracy or human rights! Human rights over state power! and There is no national security! the protesters marched from Wanchai MTR station to the Convention and Exhibition Centre where chief executive Carrie Lam was addressing an event to mark National Security Law Education Day on Thursday.
Protester Chow Hang-tung, vice chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, said the national security law had done nothing to make people feel safer.
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