{"id":288501,"date":"2021-06-30T23:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hong-kong-security-law-a-human-rights-emergency\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T23:36:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:36:17","slug":"hong-kong-security-law-a-human-rights-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hong-kong-security-law-a-human-rights-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hong Kong security law ‘a human rights emergency’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hong Kong security law ‘a human rights emergency’<\/strong>”
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HONG KONG -Amnesty International said on Wednesday that Hong Kong authorities have used a new national security law to target dissent and justify \u201ccensorship, harassment, arrests and prosecutions that violate human rights\u201d in the year since it was implemented.<\/p>\n

Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in June last year that sets out punishment for anything it deems as subversion, secession, colluding with foreign forces and terrorism with up to life in prison, setting the city on a more authoritarian path.<\/p>\n

Authorities have said the law would affect an \u201cextremely small minority\u201d of people and that it had restored stability after months of often-violent protests in 2019. They have said rights and freedoms in the former British colony remain protected but they are not absolute.<\/p>\n

Most high-profile democratic politicians and activists have been arrested under the new law or for protest-related charges, or are in self-exile.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn one year, the National Security Law has put Hong Kong on a rapid path to becoming a police state and created a human rights emergency for the people living there,\u201d said Amnesty International\u2019s Asia-Pacific Regional Director Yamini Mishra.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, this sweeping and repressive legislation threatens to make the city a human rights wasteland increasingly resembling mainland China.\u201d<\/p>\n

China foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular news<\/a> conference that Amnesty\u2019s statements were \u201cpurely malicious slander\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Hong Kong government, in a statement late on Wednesday, said it strongly objected to \u201cthe grossly misleading and incorrect remarks by some individuals, organizations and countries upon the anniversary of the Law\u201d.<\/p>\n

It did not name those it referred to.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must reiterate, for the record, that any law enforcement actions \u2026 are based on evidence, strictly according to the law, for the acts of the persons or entities concerned, and have nothing to do with their political stance, background or occupation,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

In its 47-page report, the international human rights group cited analysis of court judgments, court hearing notes and interviews with activists, concluding the legislation has been used \u201cto carry out a wide range of human rights violations\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with the promise of a high degree of autonomy from Beijing and that wide-ranging rights and freedoms would be protected for at least 50 years.<\/p>\n

Mishra said the law \u201chas infected every part of Hong Kong society and fomented a climate of fear that forces residents to think twice about what they say, what they tweet and how they live their lives\u201d.<\/p>\n

More than 100 people were arrested and more than 60 charged in the first year under the security law, according to a tally by Reuters.<\/p>\n

\u201cHong Kong\u2019s NSL has been used as a false pretext to curb dissent,\u201d the rights group said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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