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Hong Kong needs a controversial brand-new security law to tackle “growing terrorism”, the area’s security chief has actually said.
John Lee stated the city had ended up being “shrouded in the shadow of violence”.
After months of peaceful, this weekend saw a fresh surge of protest after the federal government in Beijing proposed a security law which would radically change Hong Kong’s special status.
Opponents say it is a direct effort to restrict freedoms and silence critics.
The costs was put forward on Thursday as China’s parliament, the National Individuals’s Congress (NPC), fulfilled for its delayed yearly gathering.
China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said the legislation – which would prohibit “treason, secession, sedition and subversion” – must be brought in “without the slightest hold-up”.
On Sunday, countless individuals defied federal government warnings and marched through the city centre to demonstration versus the bill.
Riot authorities fired tear gas and water cannon at demonstr