{"id":1569701,"date":"2024-03-23T08:54:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/23\/hong-kongs-new-national-security-law-comes-into-force"},"modified":"2024-03-23T08:54:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:54:03","slug":"hong-kongs-alarming-national-security-law-comes-into-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/23\/hong-kongs-alarming-national-security-law-comes-into-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s \u2018alarming\u2019 national security law comes into force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law, which has in effect silenced opposition, comes into force with penalties of up to life in prison for treason and insurrection<\/p><p>Hong Kong\u2019s new national security law came into force on Saturday, putting into immediate effect tough penalties of up to life imprisonment for crimes including treason and insurrection.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2020\/may\/22\/saddest-day-in-hong-kongs-history-china-pushes-controversial-security-laws-video\">The law<\/a> \u2013 commonly referred to as article 23 \u2013 targets five categories of national security crimes, and was swiftly passed by Hong Kong\u2019s opposition-free legislature on Tuesday.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/23\/hong-kongs-new-national-security-law-comes-into-force\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/23\/hong-kongs-new-national-security-law-comes-into-force\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law, which has in effect silenced opposition, comes into force with penalties of up to life in prison for treason and insurrectionHong Kong\u2019s new national security law came into force on Saturday, putting into immediate effect tough penalties of up to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,651,6,1156,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569702,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569701\/revisions\/1569702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}