Euro, US CRITICISM
Chow” regularly published posts with subversive intention on social media, attempting to incite hatred of the people toward the central authorities and the Hong Kong government,” according to the Chinese foreign ministry office on Thursday.
The spokesperson accused unknown “external forces” of “making all kinds of efforts to talk for and help anti-Chinese and anti-Hong Kong elements.”
” Their despicable efforts are disgraceful”, they said in a speech.
According to a spokesperson for the European Union, the arrests” seemed to validate the EU’s issues about the new legislation and its impact on the rights and freedoms of the Hong Kong population.”
The arrests were” under Hong Kong’s authoritarian new national security law,” according to the United States on Thursday.
A representative from the US State Department said,” We reiterate our worry that the government’s excessively broad and vaguely defined procedures appear to further criminalize the practice of freedom of expression and solitude criticism of the government.”
Passed by an opposition- completely government, Article 23 became Hong Kong’s following regional security law, following a Beijing- imposed security law that came into effect in 2020.
The US, the EU, Japan and Britain have been among Article 23’s strongest detractors.
China’s assertion about foreign intervention was unrelated to the national security test in which 14 Hong Kong politics politicians were found guilty of usurpation on Thursday.