It has been nearly half a year since the National Security Law came into effect in Hong Kong, and it took the eighth printer to find the record of an anti-amendment campaign that was published this spring, because other printers feared that the wording would violate the National Security Law. CNN quoted legal scholars as saying that the National Security Law case is still pending, and it is difficult to give clear legal advice on what would violate the National Security Law. Mr. Tam Yiu-chung, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), has argued that this is because lawyers are unfamiliar with the law, and that there is no problem with only documenting last year’s amendments. However, Mr. Tam is not a legal expert himself.
The report also points out that after the National Security Law went into effect, many of the readers who ordered the book did not pick it up at the post office, and some even sent e-mails saying they did not want it.
The book was originally scheduled to be published on a date that coincided with the launch of the National Security Law. The book is the first of its kind in the world to be published in the U.S., and it is the first of its kind in the world to be published in the U.S.,” he said.
The book’s author will think that we are willing to continue to speak and publish the book, but at that time, printers or book sellers are afraid, not knowing that helping us to print the book may be an accident, and know some lawyers who have asked the relevant opinions, can not answer anything. Go to the 8th room before they were willing to print, “‘Glorious Hong Kong, Times of Revolution’, this slogan can not be found in the entire book, the industry will be even more (self-) set up invisible red line.”
Mr. Chen (a pseudonym), the editor of the publication, said, “Before July, we hadn’t thought about what we could and couldn’t do, and we couldn’t draw a red line that quickly. Protest? In the end, it was not published.”
They were worried that just documenting a sensitive topic would be illegal, and asked for legal advice, but they all said it was useless, HKU Law School Principal Lecturer Zhang Daming: “We are not sure how to interpret it correctly, and bringing out the law itself is not clear enough, when can it be clear? I really don’t know, at least these next few years will face instability, I don’t know how the red line will eventually be drawn.”
National People’s Congress Standing Committee Tam Yiu-chung said: “Maybe a lawyer is not familiar with the law, ask more than one or two, the provisions of the law was released, I have received a lot of records of black violence incidents in the book, there are many pictures with these slogans, do not see any problem, incitement and book about the actual situation, is tantamount to history, do not see any big problem.”
Since June 30, when the National Security Law came into effect in Hong Kong, 32 people have been arrested for such violations, and the first case has yet to go to trial.
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