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Hong Kong Expands Use of National Security Law Abroad

Hong Kong Expands Use of National Security Law Abroad
A special unit of the Hong Kong police provides security in the city's Wanchai district on June 30, 2022. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images
Peter Dahlin
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Hong Kong’s national security police issued charges against a Canadian citizen and critic of the Chinese Communist Party, for subversion, under the National Security Law (NSL). It has also issued similar charges against two U.S. residents. Their crimes: political organizing (though entirely legal) outside of Hong Kong and China—in Canada and the United States, respectively—to be exact. With this, Hong Kong police show, once and for all, the true extraterritoriality concept behind the law passed in 2020.

Peter Dahlin
Peter Dahlin
Author
Peter Dahlin is the founder of the NGO Safeguard Defenders and the co-founder of the Beijing-based Chinese NGO China Action (2007–2016). He is the author of “Trial By Media,” and contributor to “The People’s Republic of the Disappeared.” He lived in Beijing from 2007, until detained and placed in a secret jail in 2016, subsequently deported and banned. Prior to living in China, he worked for the Swedish government with gender equality issues, and now lives in Madrid, Spain.
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