HONG KONG — At least two political rights groups advocating democracy have quietly quit Hong Kong and moved overseas, unnerved by a national security law that has fanned fears over the erosion of freedoms under China’s rule, sources told Reuters.
In the past, China-focused rights groups had valued the wide-ranging autonomy, including freedom of speech and assembly, guaranteed for Hong Kong when control over the former British colony was returned to Beijing in 1997.
But some non-government organizations (NGOs) said the new legislation means they face a choice of either having to leave Hong Kong or work with the same kind of fears and constraints they would encounter …
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