China calls for tough security laws to end HK turmoil
A senior Chinese official has called for tougher laws in Hong Kong to end the prolonged unrest in the port city. – EPA pic, November 10, 2019.
CHINA has said the lack of tough security laws in Hong Kong is a key reason for months of increasingly violent pro-democracy demonstrations and that the enactment of such legislation is an “urgent task”. The call – likely to further inflame protesters angry with a police response seen as heavy-handed – came in a lengthy statement issued late yesterday by the head of the Chinese government department that oversees Hong Kong.
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