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China's Tough Hong Kong Law Hushes Media And Activists In Its 1st Year : NPR


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In 2019, massive protests against Beijing s rule rocked Hong Kong. Now that kind of dissent could be punished by up to life in prison under a national security law. It s been one year since Beijing imposed that law in the region of Hong Kong. NPR s Emily Feng looks at how it s been applied and the effect it s had on civil society.
(SOUNDBITE OF PROTEST)
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in non-English language).
EMILY FENG, BYLINE: Hong Kong s political opposition was cautiously optimistic in 2019. Despite a crackdown on protests, they d notched a landslide win in local district elections that October. So they set their sights higher. They would poll voters to identify the best candidates for upcoming legislative elections. It was not to be. ....

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China's Tough Hong Kong Law Turns 1 Year Old — And It's Already Grown Teeth


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Hong Kong police show their new goose step marching style on National Security Education Day at a police school in Hong Kong on April 15.
BEIJING It took just one year for China s national security law to completely remake Hong Kong s decades-old institutions.
Hong Kong s Chief Executive Carrie Lam vowed on the eve of the national security law s implementation last year that it would only target an extremely small minority of crimes, but basic rights and freedoms and most citizens would be protected.
While the absolute number of people brought to trial has indeed been low, the law has been used to arrest people for a broad variety of offenses a strategy legal experts say is designed to create a chilling effect to prevent all future dissent, and discourage political activity, across all levels of civil society. ....

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