{"id":61532,"date":"2024-01-30T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T05:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/30\/hong-kong-article-23-new-national-security-laws-explained-what-do-they-mean"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T05:50:55","slug":"hong-kongs-article-23-what-is-the-new-national-security-law-and-what-will-it-mean-for-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61532","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s article 23: what is the new national security law and what will it mean for human rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s chief executive, John Lee, announced a public consultation period after claiming advocates of independence are \u2018still lurking in our society\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s government has announced a public consultation period for a new national security law, telling residents it has a constitutional duty to strengthen legal mechanisms in response to \u201cforeign agents and Hong Kong independence advocates \u2026 still lurking in our society\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s chief executive, John Lee, said the law which is known as Article 23, would be added to Hong Kong\u2019s mini constitution and work in concert with the existing national security law (NSL) \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/they-cant-speak-freely-hong-kong-a-year-after-the-national-security-law\">imposed by China\u2019s central government in 2020<\/a> \u2013 but the latter would prevail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/30\/hong-kong-article-23-new-national-security-laws-explained-what-do-they-mean\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s chief executive, John Lee, announced a public consultation period after claiming advocates of independence are \u2018still lurking in our society\u2019Hong Kong\u2019s government has announced a public consultation period for a new national security law, t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61533,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61532\/revisions\/61533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}