Hong Kong leader assures security laws will not affect rights and freedoms of city

Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam urged residents to wait for details of proposed national security legislation saying it would t affect city’s rights and freedoms. During a regular weekly press conference, Hong Kong leer said that re is need to worry about legislation without elaborating on how higher degree of automy will be upheld.

Lam said that Hong Kong has always been able to uphold and preserve freedom of speech and expression and freedom to protest in last 23 years. She asserted that it is best thing to see legislation and understand why Hong Kong needs it at this point in time. Lam’s comments came after protesters took to streets of city to demonstrate against proposed law as y fear it would impact automy of region.

Earlier, Hong Kong’s security chief h extended his support to China’s proposed national security legislation saying city has lost its peace with growing terrorism.  John Lee, Secretary for Security, said in a statement that violence has been escalating in Hong Kong with many cases involving explosives and genuine firearms.

“Terrorism is growing in city and activities which harm national security, such as ‘Hong Kong independence’, become more rampant,” said Lee.

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Referring to pro-democracy protests, 62-year-old security chief for China’s semi-automous region said that Hong Kong has changed from one of safest cities in world to a city shrouded in show of violence. Lee displayed his support for bill presented by National People’s Congress and said that it will le all disciplinary forces to discharge ir duties for safeguarding national security.

Taiwan's warning

United States, Britain, European Union, and or countries have raised concerns over proposed legislation. Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen even said that proposed legislation may prompt self-governing island republic to revoke special status it has extended to Hong Kong.

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