CNA’s Deborah Wong speaks to Regina Ip, convenor of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, about national security measures that have been introduced since the 2019 protests.
New: You can now listen to articles.Protestors took to the streets in June 2019 to demand the withdrawal of the Bill, which would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial. This eventually became the largest series of demonstrations in the Chinese special administrative region’s history.
So, we managed to complete the Bill scrutiny in seven days and enacted a law on Mar 19, but during the Bill scrutiny process – I’m a member of the Bills committee – we raised more than 1,000 questions, and the government accepted 91 amendments.Did it come as a surprise to you that the Bill took a short amount of time to be passed during that period?When the government consulted me, my advice was not to do a three-month consultation.
If you left it under your bed by accident? Or if you keep it … for teaching law, what is the law on sedition? Then you don't have criminal intent and you are not doing anything to stir up hatred, then you can’t possibly commit an offence.I think people who are concerned should look at the law. The two elements in criminal law are mens rea, meaning criminal intent, and actus reus, meaning you have to do something.
Of course, the Western media has been highly biased. They frame these bad actors as freedom fighters, you know, people who fight for democracy or freedom. Actually, the reality is very different.
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