Hong Kong: One year after China passed the national security law, residents feel Beijing s tightening grip CNN 5 hrs ago By Jessie Yeung, CNN © Olivier Chouchana/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images A banner announcing the National Security Law in Hong Kong s Admiralty district on August 14, 2020.
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.
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