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The Hong Kong Bill of Rights elaborates on these and other rights enjoyed by the people of Hong Kong. [1] The Hong Kong government enacted the Hong Kong national security law on 30 June 2020. Under its Article 43, local law enforcement unit was authorized to censor any resources when handling cases concerning offense endangering national security.
Hong Kong lawmakers have passed a new law that tightens censorship on films and bans them if they are deemed a security risk. What happened: Passed by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong on ...
Hong Kong legislators on Wednesday approved an amended law that will allow film censorship on the basis of national security considerations. It does not cover the online screening of movies ...
In Hong Kong, censorship, which refers to the suppression of speech or other public communication, raises issues regarding the freedom of speech.By law, censorship is usually practised against the distribution of certain materials, particularly child pornography, obscene images, sedition, separatism, state secrets, and reports on court cases which may lead to unfair trial.
Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday approved an amended law that will allow film censorship on the basis of national security considerations. Hong Kong passes new film censorship law to 'safeguard ...
The Hong Kong Research Association interviewed 1,097 adult citizens by telephone on 2–5 July. 66% of the respondents support the National People's Congress Standing Committee's enactment of the "Hong Kong National Security Law" and its implementation in Hong Kong in Annex III of the Basic Law, while 31% do not support it; the survey also ...
A proposed new law that will inject national security elements into Hong Kong’s censorship system has the city’s filmmakers worried. The law allows government officials retrospective power to ...
The Provisional Legislative Council, seen as unconstitutional by the British authorities and boycotted by most pro-democracy legislators, was in operation from 25 January 1997 to 30 June 1998 and held its meetings in Shenzhen until 30 June 1997, when the PLC moved to Hong Kong and replaced the elected legislature from the 1997 handover of Hong ...