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China opens headquarters for its secret police in Hong Kong
HONG KONG: A riot police officer (2nd left) points at a woman (center) laying down after being searched during a demonstration in a mall in Hong Kong in response to a new national security law. — AFP

US tech giants resist as China censors Hong Kong’s internet
HONG KONG: A woman sticks a blank note onto a ‘Lennon Wall’ outside a pro-democracy restaurant in Hong Kong in response to a new national security law introduced in the city which makes political views, slogans and signs advocating Hong Kong’s independence or liberation illegal. — AFP

Fearful of new security law, Hong Kongers scramble for safe havens
Protesters chant slogans and gesture during a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020, on the 23rd anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China. - Hong Kong police arrested more than 300 people on July 1 -- including nine under China's new national security law -- as thousands defied a ban on protests on the anniversary of the city's handover to China. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

HK Bar Association 'gravely concerned' by security law
HONG KONG: A woman reacts after she was hit with pepper spray deployed by police as they cleared a street with protesters rallying against a new national security law in Hong Kong yesterday. — AFP

Hong Kong marks handover anniversary with first arrest under new security law
Police enter a shopping mall to disperse people attending a lunchtime rally in Hong Kong on June 30, 2020, as China passed a sweeping national security law for the city. - China passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong, a historic move that critics and many western governments fear will smother the finance hub's freedoms and hollow out its autonomy. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

China passes national security law
HONG KONG: People are detained as pro-democracy protesters gather in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong. — AFP

US restricts visas in latest move on Hong Kong
HONG KONG: Pro-democracy protesters gather during a ‘Lunch With You’ rally at a shopping mall in the Central district of Hong Kong yesterday. —AFP

Hong Kong: What losing US ‘special status’ mean for?
HONG KONG: A pro-China activist steps on an effigy of US President Donald Trump during a protest outside the US consulate in Hong Kong in response to US President Donald Trump saying he would strip several of Hong Kong’s special privileges with the United States and bar some Chinese students from US universities in anger over Beijing’s bid to exert control in the financial hub.— AFP

China media, Hong Kong bristle at Trump’s pledge of curbs, sanctions
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