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Nine chapters released in consultation paper for residents to offer their views, with activities such as treason, insurrection and theft of state secrets targeted.
‘The new law aims to create a stable and safe environment so that when people attack us, we will be protected,’ city leader John Lee says.
Hong Kong's government announced on Tuesday that it hopes to swiftly pass new national security laws. The package, known as Article 23, is designed to update or create news laws to prohibit treason, sabotage, sedition, the theft of state secrets and espionage as well tightening control over foreign political bodies and organisations operating in the city. The need for those specific laws is briefly stipulated in Article 23 of the Basic Law, the mini-constitutional document that has guided Hong Kong's relations with its Chinese sovereign since its handover from British colonial rule...
The Post has summarised how authorities propose to amend existing laws and create new offences under five major activities that endanger national security.
Zheng Yanxiong, director of the central government’s liaison office, lists three wishes for Hong Kong at Lunar New Year reception.