China’s crackdown on Hong Kong gathered pace yesterday when pro- democracy books were removed from libraries and the authorities ordered schools and even nurseries to teach their pupils to obey the new national security law.
The controversial measure allows for life imprisonment for actions deemed as sedition, subversion, terrorism or foreign collusion, and threatens even foreigners with punishment if they criticise Beijing’s actions in the city.
The Hong Kong authorities announced that nine books, including two by Joshua Wong, the 23-year-old student who emerged as one of the leaders of the pro-democracy protests that shook the territory last year, were under review for “compliance” with the new law and would no longer be available to the public. Six books by Horace Chin, dubbed the “godfather”
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