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Hong Kong hits back at UK call for security law to be scrapped

by Joy

Hong Kong authorities on Friday (May 26) condemned a British government call for the removal of a China-imposed national security law that Britain said had been used to persecute, “silence and discredit” pro-democracy opposition figures.

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Hong Kong authorities said in a statement that they “vehemently refuted, strongly disapproved and firmly rejected the slandering remarks and ill-intentioned political attacks”.

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A Hong Kong government spokesman said Britain should “stop interfering in Hong Kong matters, which are purely China’s internal affairs”.

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The spokesman said Hong Kong’s security law had brought stability after mass pro-democracy protests in 2019, and that while Hong Kong laws guaranteed certain individual rights, “such rights and freedoms are not absolute” when it comes to safeguarding national security.

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