Hong Kong’s government passed an immigration law that raises concern it could be used to prevent dissidents from leaving the city.
Several prominent prodemocracy activists and politicians have fled abroad from Hong Kong in recent months to escape the threat of prosecution. The city has a pursued a flood of criminal cases against dissidents, securing a 14-month prison sentence earlier this month against media tycoon Jimmy Lai for attending unauthorised protests.
The government has dismissed the worries as “complete nonsense”, saying that the law is aimed at tackling a surge in refugee claims in recent years and denied it will have any impact on locals’ ability to come and go from the Asian financial centre.
The US state department says in a travel advisory for China that the country uses “exit bans on US citizens and citizens of other countries without due process of law”. Two Australian journalists fled China last year after saying they had been initially banned from leaving.
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