Five ways Hong Kong has changed under China's security law

HONG KONG: Beijing's new national security law for Hong Kong is the most radical shift in how the semi-autonomous city is run since it was handed back to China by Britain in 1997.

Hong Kong's Bar Association, which represents the city's lawyers, has said it is"gravely concerned" by Beijing imposing a sweeping security law on the financial hub. But the national security law was written in Beijing and imposed on the city – its contents kept secret until it was enacted on Tuesday evening.

Article 22 of the Basic Law says the central government cannot interfere in the running of Hong Kong.Pedestrians walk past a wall with posters that have been covered over with blank paper in Hong Kong on Jul 3, 2020, as a new national security law introduced in the city makes political views, slogans and signs advocating Hong Kong’s independence or liberation illegal. Beijing and Hong Kong's government said the new powers would only target a"very small minority".

On Thursday the government confirmed that one of the city's most popular protest chants –"Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" – was now banned.For some the phrase represents genuine aspirations to split Hong Kong from China. Across town, posters and phrases are being removed from"Lennon Walls" that first sprung up during last year's protests.

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