New Hong Kong University Classes Set Out Dangers of Breaking Security Law

New Hong Kong University Classes Set Out Dangers of Breaking Security Law
Protesters sit at a barricade set up on the roof of a footbridge leading to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong, on Nov. 15, 2019. Thomas Peter/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Last month, several thousand Hong Kong university students, some under the watch of a CCTV camera, were the first to attend compulsory courses on the territory’s national security law.

The content of the courses, some of which Reuters has seen exclusively, sets out the dangers of breaking the law, in one case demonstrating how a message in a chat group could be interpreted as a serious breach, punishable by up to life in prison.