Hundreds arrested in Hong Kong as China uses new security law to censor protests

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: New York Daily News

Nearly 400 Hong Kong residents were arrested Wednesday as China showed it wasn’t afraid to use its brand-new national security law.

The detainees were among thousands of protesters who took to the streets in defiance of the law, the Wall Street Journal reported. July 1, the day Britain returned semi-autonomous control of Hong Kong to China in 1997, is a traditional day of demonstrations, but police refused to issue their usual permit.

That refusal came one day after China sprung a new “national security” law on Hong Kong’s 7.5 million residents.

The new law essentially criminalizes dissent against China’s ruling Communist Party. With vague wording but deliberate intention, the law makes subversion or support for independence movements illegal.



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[Warpy]

1. My friends there have their escape plan in place.

They don't want to leave, it's their home, and it's heartbreaking.

I'm relieved that they are well enough off to be able to leave if they have to.

We don't hear a tenth of what's happening here in the US. Think our cops are out of control? What's going on there is nothing short of horrific.

[Mickju]

2. This is a tragic situation.

It infuriates me.

[DENVERPOPS]

3. You've got that right......

Americans and the World never saw anything about Tiamen (sp?) square except the kid standing in front of the tank.........
Soon after that, the Chinese got rid of all people around the outside of the square, made sure there were no cameras, drove armored personnel carriers into the large square, sealed the entrances, and machine gunned down all the demonstrators in an incredible blood bath. It took them a month to clean up all the bodies, blood, blood stains and bullet holes and then they re-opened the square like nothing had happened.................................

[Warpy]

4. When the shit went down, it was televised.

I watched it around midnight, after I'd gotten home from work. I've forgotten who carried it, I think it was on the old Nightline show, and they showed gasoline being dumped on APCs and set alight along with beatings and shootings. The Square was closed for days after that, of course, until cleaning crews had gone in to scour everything squeaky clean again.

So there was some limited exposure of the mess in Tiananmen Square, but only if you were a night owl.