CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG RESIDENTS PROTEST IMPOSITION OF NEW 'NATIONAL SECURITY LAW'
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The South China Morning Post (July 1) and Bloomberg (July 2) reported that on July 1, the first full day of the new National Security Law (NSL) being in force in Hong Kong and despite police raising a new flag warning the crowds that they were violating the national security law, campaigners still gathered in Causeway Bay in defiance of a ban on the Civil Human Rights Front’s annual July 1 march, the first time the application has been rejected. The police also arrested ten persons including a man carrying a Hongkong "independence" flag under the NSL and 360 others on charges of rioting. Meanwhile, The British government plans to give almost 3 million city residents the right to live in the U.K. with a path to citizenship.
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