China reveals details of new Hong Kong national security law

China has unveiled more details about a new national security law being drafted for Hong Kong. It says Beijing will set up a new national security bureau in Hong Kong, supervised by the central government, to crack down on dissent in the city. Critics fear it will crush wide-ranging freedoms that are seen as key to Hong Kong's status as a global financial center.

Will China’s new security law being forced on Hong Kong be the end of autonomy in the territory?

In an exclusive interview with DW’s Conflict Zone, Hong Kong’s former security secretary, Regina Ip, says China had to act. “Beijing authorities have no option but to get on with introducing a set of laws that will protect national security and discourage separatist activities,” Ip told Tim Sebastian.

Hong Kong’s chance to preserve its special status | DW News

Beijing has announced a new national security law that would threaten Hong Kong's semi-autonomous status. Pro-democracy protesters now fear what they see as an unprecedented attack on freedoms in the city.

Hong Kong: Thousands defy lockdown orders to protest China's security law | DW News

In Hong Kong, thousands took to the streets to protest Beijing's plans to impose a security law on the former British colony. It would bypass the local legislature and is expected to ban what China calls treason and sedition. Pro-democracy campaigners say it's a threat to Hong Kong's freedoms and semi-autonomy. Hong Kong's security chief says "terrorism" is on the rise in the city as police arrested some 180 protesters during renewed unrest.

China moves to end Hong Kong's autonomy

The opening day of China’s National People's Congress focused on a controversial security law for Hong Kong that would likely ban treason, subversion and sedition. The proposed "enforcement mechanisms," have faced significant backlash from the US, Taiwan and pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong. "This is the end of Hong Kong, this is the end of 'One Country, Two Systems', make no mistake about it," Civic Party lawmaker Dennis Kwok told reporters.

Retweeting Tweets From North Korea Could Land You Jail

Two years ago photographer from South Korea was arrested for re-tweeting tweets from North Korea's official account.  He was charged under South Korea's draconian National Security law which makes it a crime to praise the North.

Unfortunately for South Korean prosecutors the Supreme Court didn't agree to their assertion he was a threat to national security.

South Korea's top court has acquitted a man accused of sympathising with North Korea by retweeting posts by its government, arguing that his action poses little threat to national security.
Park Jeong-Geun, a 26-year-old photographer, was arrested and charged in 2012 of violating the National Security Law by retweeting posts by the North's official Twitter account.

Under the notorious anti-communist law, South Koreans are banned from activities deemed to be praising or sympathising with the North, which is still technically at war with the South.

A district court handed Park a suspended jail term but an appellate court later found him innocent.
The supreme court of Korea upheld the acquittal, after prosecutors appealed the ruling, saying his actions "did not pose tangible threats to national security."