HK marks handover anniversary under shadow of new security law

World dignitaries stand and watch as the Union Jack was lowered at the handover ceremony at Hong Kong Convention Center on July 1, 1997.

Activists have called on people to defy a ban on protests and march through the city’s main island on Wednesday afternoon. During last year’s huge pro-democracy demonstrations, the city’s legislature was besieged and trashed by protesters. The formula helped cement the city’s status as a world-class business hub, bolstered by an independent judiciary and political freedoms unseen on the mainland.

China will have jurisdiction over “serious” cases and its security agencies will also be able to operate publicly in the city for the first time, unbound by local laws as they carry out their duties. Popular anger towards Beijing exploded last year during seven consecutive months of huge and increasingly violent pro-democracy protests.

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