CHINA-HONGKONG: HONGKONG'S PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE REMOVING BOOKS THEY FEEL COULD ATTRACT ADVERSE ATTENTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY LAW
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Radio Free Asia (November 24) reported that public libraries in Hong Kong have been quietly removing books from the shelves deemed politically "sensitive" under a national security law imposed on the city by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). More than 100 titles -- many of them referencing the 1989 Tiananmen massacre -- are believed to have disappeared from Hong Kong's network of public libraries since the law took effect on July 1, 2020. While the city's leisure and cultural services department has made a list of more than 70 books deemed to be in breach of the law, which criminalizes public criticism of the Hong Kong and Chinese authorities, the local media reports that regular readers have spotted many more.
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