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Threat Grows for Hong Kong's Press, Judiciary

National security law presents dramatic erosion of freedoms

Our Correspondent
Jul 07, 2020
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Newly revealed details of the national security law forced on Hong Kong by Beijing indicate that the territory, for most of the decades of the Cold War a free press listening post into China, will no longer enjoy the strong press freedom and judicial independence that have made the territory a free speech bastion.

On the morning of July 7, Hong Kong chi…

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