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China passes sweeping Hong Kong national security law: report – CNN


Beijing’s top lawmaking body, the National People’s Congress (NPC), passed the law unanimously on Tuesday morning local time, bypassing Hong Kong’s legislature, via a rarely used constitutional backdoor, according to Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK, citing unnamed sources. Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency previously reported the law would criminalize offenses such as secession, subversion against …