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Hong Kong leader John Lee said Wednesday the semi-autonomous city would create its own national security law in 2024, four years after Beijing imposed sweeping legislation aimed at silencing dissent.
Massive pro-democracy protests rocked the city in 2019, bringing hundreds of thousands of people to the streets to call for greater freedoms and more autonomy from mainland China. “The government is pressing ahead to draw up effective legislative options and will complete the legislative exercise in 2024 to fulfil our constitutional duty,” Lee said.
The last legislative attempt in 2003 was shelved after half a million people took to the streets in protest. A new homegrown security law “would give the Hong Kong government the chance… to threaten an even broader array of individuals with legal penalties merely for exercising their basic rights”, Kellogg said.His announcement came a day after Beijing passed a law to strengthen “patriotic education” for children and families as “some people are at a loss about what is patriotism”, said China’s state-run Xinhua news agency.
The issue of affordable housing remains one of the city’s major policy roadblocks and something successive administrations have failed to tackle.
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