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Hong Kong Leader Addresses UN Human Rights Council as Criticism Mounts Over Beijing’s Security Law

Hong Kong Leader Addresses UN Human Rights Council as Criticism Mounts Over Beijing’s Security Law
Protesters take part in a lunchtime protest in Central district, Hong Kong on June 30, 2020. They hold up signs calling on people to join a July 1 protest. Song Bilung/The Epoch Times
Frank Fang
Frank Fang
Reporter
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam shed some light on Beijing’s national security law while speaking at the United Nations Human Rights Council on June 30.

Lam, in a speech delivered through video link, said that Beijing’s national security “will have no retrospective effect,” according to a press release from the Hong Kong government.
Frank Fang
Frank Fang
Reporter
Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based reporter. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
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