By Jessie Yeung, CNN
It was approaching midnight on June 30, 2020, when news broke that Beijing had promulgated a national security law in Hong Kong, effective immediately.
Since China’s rubber-stamp parliament revealed its plans for such legislation the month before, Hong Kongers had been
nervously awaiting the details of a law that would reshape their legal, political and media landscape.
Now, the full text was here and it was broader, vaguer and gave Beijing more power than many expected.
The bill was drafted almost entirely in closed-door meetings in Beijing that even Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, was not a part of. It came after months of anti-government, pro-democracy protests that infuriated the
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