Hong Kong: Hong Kong National Security Law has destroyed freedom and created “human rights emergency”, said Amnesty International on Wednesday, a year after Beijing enacted laws in the city.
The sweeping national security law – who criminalize something authorized considers subversion, separation, collusion with foreign forces and terrorism with life in prison – has radically changed the political and legal landscape of Hong Kong.
“In one year, national security law has placed Hong Kong on a quick way to become a police station and create an emergency of human rights for people who live there,” said the regional director of Asia-Pacific Amnesty Yamini Mishra.
Beijing insisted on the law needed to restore stability after large pro-democracy demonstrations and sometimes with violence in 2019 but promised to target only “extreme minorities”.
The police and prosecutors have since implemented a wide law, with most accusations targeting political speeches, breaking up on China’s insurance that Hong Kong will be allowed to maintain the main freedom and autonomy after being submitted by 1997 from England.
Amnesty released the report a week after Apple Daily’s pro-democracy newspaper was forced to close after the arrest of senior executives, leading editorial writers, and freezing of their assets.
“From politics to culture, education to the media, the law has infected every part of the Hong Kong community and triggers a fearful climate forcing the population to think twice about what they say, what they tweet,” Amnesty said, “said Amnesty in the report .
Human rights groups say they analyze court assessment and hearing records, and interviews with targeted activists based on law to show how the law has been used to carry out “various human rights violations”.
Hong Kong authorities said 117 people aged between 15 Until 79 was arrested for “action and involved in activities that endanger national security” because 64 people have been charged, including the media Tycoon Jimmy Lai, a leading pro-democracy activist, and former parliamentarians.
Most of the defendants were charged with the law denied guarantee because of a tight clause g requires them to persuade the court that they no longer pose a national security risk.
Hong Kong also began his first national security trial without a judge last week, the Moment of DAS for the city with a 176-year-old general legal system where the jury was always a decisive feature.
“In the end, this sweeping and repressive legislation threatened to make the city more resembling mainland China,” Amnesty said.
HK security law creates ‘human rights emergency’: amnesty
