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Hong Kong to introduce own national security law in 2024

A small protest calling for universal suffrage took place ahead of John Lee's policy address [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

Hong Kong leader John Lee has said the Chinese territory will table its own national security law in 2024, four years after Beijing imposed sweeping legislation that critics say has “decimated” freedoms.

The Chinese law was brought in after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protests that began over an extradition bill with the mainland and developed into demands for more democracy and political freedom that sometimes turned violent.

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