Police reportedly invoked the National Security Law for the first time last week, asking Internet service providers to block the “Hong Kong Chronicle” website. In a reply to Hong Kong’s Standpoint News on Thursday (14), Hong Kong Broadband admitted that it had stopped linking to the website in accordance with the requirements of the National Security Law.
In a reply to a media inquiry, Hong Kong Broadband admitted that “we have stopped linking to the website in accordance with the requirements of the National Security Law”, the first network provider to admit to blocking the website due to the National Security Law.
The “Hong Kong Chronicle” website, which contains personal information such as phone numbers, addresses and ID numbers of police officers, officials and pro-establishment camp members, said on its Telegram channel last Thursday (Jan. 7) that it had received reports since the evening of the 6th that Internet users could not connect to the website when using the services of Hong Kong’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Ming Pao and other media have cited police sources to report that the police National Security Division, for the first time, invoked Article 43 of the National Security Law of Hong Kong to block the site, and said that the police are now issuing administrative orders to the relevant parties to remove the information within a reasonable period of time, if they refuse to implement the “National Security Law” will violate.
However, the police have not responded clearly, replied to media inquiries that they do not comment on individual cases, and that they can be in accordance with Article 43 of the National Security Law, as well as the implementation of the Fourth Schedule, “to require service providers to take action against electronic messages posted on electronic platforms that are likely to constitute a crime against national security, or are likely to lead to the occurrence of a crime against national security.
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