(ChurchLeaders) China is tightening its grip around Hong Kong with a new National Security Law that was passed, virtually without input from Hong Kong leaders, yesterday in Beijing. Amnesty International calls the new law “the greatest threat to human rights in the city’s recent history.”
“The speed and secrecy with which China has pushed through this legislation intensifies the fear that Beijing has calculatingly created a weapon of repression to be used against government critics, including people who are merely expressing their views or protesting peacefully,” Joshua Rosenzweig, Amnesty International’s head of China team, told reporters.