The new ruling seeks to punish violators with jail and a fine. FMTNews HongKong Unrest
HONG KONG: The director of a documentary about Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement says he has deleted a scene featuring a dissident artist playing China’s national anthem after a law was passed criminalising “insults” to the revolutionary song.
“The legal advice obtained by the distributors says we’d better make the cut,” Chan told AFP, saying the edit would be made to the Hong Kong edition of the film, which first screened at the Rotterdam film festival earlier this year. As a result, the city has been a bastion of artistic and creative freedom within authoritarian China but many fear that is fast changing.
Beijing says the law will restore stability after violent pro-democracy protests last year and will only target “an extreme minority”. “If the law is soon passed, whether the film administration will give a green light and whether the distributors will take the risk, those are tricky questions,” he said, referring to the city’s film classification board.
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