Hong Kong protests: more than 300 arrested as security law comes in; UK opens pathway to citizenship

Police use water cannon and pepper spray as people take to the streets to protest new security law introduced by ChinaProtesters arrested on first day of Hong Kong’s hated new lawsAnalysis: security laws usher in new era of Chinese controlHow are you being affected by protests in Hong Kong? 2.55pm BST Scenes from Hong Kong’s streets 2.26pm BST Lord Patten, Hong Kong’s last British governor before the 1997 handover, has described the new security law as Orwellian. “Heaven knows how it will affect the ability of journalists to report what’s happening in Hong Kong,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One. The big game starts now – what we’ve seen from China is a doubling down in their aggressive and loutish behaviour all around the world and we’ve really got to work… with allies, not to start a cold war but to form a group of countries who will say: ‘if you behave in this appalling fashion, China, we’re going to call you out.’You can lock up people, you can’t lock up ideas. I still believe that the belief in freedom and the rule of law is going to have a longer lifespan than Xi Jinping’s extremely unpleasant, dictatorial, totalitarian communism.” Continue reading…
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