Amendments to the Public Order and Societies Ordinances, while paying lip service to Hong Kong’s

commitments under the ICCPRnational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), expanded the
grounds for intervention in legitimate peaceful political activity and protest. This does not auger well
for the forthcoming debate on national security laws under article 23 of the Basic Law. Meanwhile,
public demonstrations continued, including the massive annual commemoration of the 1989 June 4
massacre, but peaceful protestors also faced arbitrary interference and disproportionate application
of the law.

This includes the decision not to prosecute Xinhua news agency for breaching privacy laws, and the
re-definition of the “State” so that Xinhua and other state organs are exempt from laws,
undermining the apparent meaning of the Basic Law.

Resilient human rights protection, the rule of law, government transparency and accountability,
community participation and the free flow of information are crucial to the stability and prosperity
of Hong Kong.

The National Flag and National Emblem Ordinance and a regional equivalent were passed by the PLC
on the basis that under Annex III of the Basic Law, a precursor of the relevant national law was to
beapplicable to Hong Kong. In passing the laws, the PLC does not appear to have examined whether
they were in compliance with the ICCPR .

e six purposes for which restrictions may be imposed on freedom of association and assembly are
not very well defined: national security, public safety, public order (ordre public), public health,
public morals and protecting the rights and freedoms of others.

Bill of Rights Ordinance (BORO), the Societies Ordinance (SO) and the Pubic Order Ordinance (POO)
contradicted the Basic Law and should therefore not be adopted as laws of the SAR.

Hong Kong in many respects is seen as a gateway to China for those who are
interested in doing business on the mainland or accessing Chinese stocks or
investments. As of June 2021, 31 of the 161 licensed banks in Hong Kong
were of Mainland interests.1 8

Mainland China is Hong Kong's largest trading partner and its second-largest
source of inward direct investment
The Central Government in Beijing agreed that reports on Hong Kong should continue to be
submitted to the UN on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (ICCPR). However, there has been little sign of a new approach to longstanding concerns of
the UN Human Rights Committee such as the need for independent investigation of complaints
against the police.

nsure the widest possible public consultation and debate on any proposals to legislate under Article
23 of the Basic Law, including full discussion of the objective necessity for any provision. (Under this
we can put the refrandum idea).

https://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain?
page=search&docid=3ae6b0550&skip=0&query=chinese%20and%20hong%20kong%20crisis

In international diplomacy, Hong Kong has no separate identity from mainland

China. For example, Hong Kong has no independent representation in the
United Nations Security Council, the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development, the Group of 77 at the United Nations, or the Group of
22 (G22).
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dollar.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/18/these-charts-show-why-hong-kong-is-important-to-china.html
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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/impact-national-security-law-hong-kong-one-year-
2021-07-01/

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