{"id":12470,"date":"2020-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/ict-denounces-chinas-national-security-law-for-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T22:00:00","slug":"ict-denounces-chinas-national-security-law-for-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/ict-denounces-chinas-national-security-law-for-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"ICT denounces China\u2019s national security law for Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Campaign for Tibet expresses solidarity with the people of Hong Kong after the Chinese government imposed a new national security law on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s passage and immediate implementation of the National Security Law for Hong Kong is yet another indication of its blatant disregard for international norms, as well as the rights of Hong Kongers under the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984 and Basic Law of 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just one day after the law was passed and came into force on July 1, 2020, Hong Kong police already started detaining citizens who were exercising their freedom of expression and assembly, as guaranteed under the Basic Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that the law was passed without Hong Kongers having any opportunity to discuss and voice their opinions about it shows the Chinese government has violated the special \u201cOne country, two systems\u201d status of the island territory, including the promised \u201chigh degree of autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new law is vague and gives China the opportunity to use it arbitrarily to clamp down on Hong Kongers\u2019 fundamental rights by invoking \u201cnational security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese government has been using such pretexts for decades in the case of Tibet, stifling all the fundamental rights of the Tibetan people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICT calls on the Chinese government and Hong Kong authorities to respect UN standards, as well as international human rights laws, and not use the pretext of \u201cnational security\u201d to clamp down on Hong Kong citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Campaign for Tibet expresses solidarity with the people of Hong Kong after the Chinese government imposed a new national security law on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12471,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[691],"news_tag":[674],"class_list":["post-12470","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-news","news_tag-chinese-policy-and-leadership"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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