Accounts deleted and social media erased as members of both professions question – in private – how to operate
Journalists and lawyers in Hong Kong are scrambling to adapt as Chinese authorities set up the apparatus to enforce a controversial national security law, including appointing a hardline party official to head a new security agency.
Zheng Yanxiong, who is best known for tackling protests on the mainland, is to run the office established under the law that empowers mainland security agents to operate in Hong Kong openly and unbound for the first time. China’s authoritarian leaders say its series of powers will restore stability after a year of protests.
Continue reading…Accounts deleted and social media erased as members of both professions question – in private – how to operateJournalists and lawyers in Hong Kong are scrambling to adapt as Chinese authorities set up the apparatus to enforce a controversial national security law, including appointing a hardline party official to head a new security agency.Zheng Yanxiong, who is best known for tackling protests on the mainland, is to run the office established under the law that empowers mainland security agents to operate in Hong Kong openly and unbound for the first time. China’s authoritarian leaders say its series of powers will restore stability after a year of protests. Continue reading…