China: A “Patriot-Only” Hong Kong Emerges

Since imposing the draconian National Security Law (NSL) on Hong Kong on June 30, 2020, the Chinese government has erased the city’s freedoms and created a highly repressive national security regime that harshly punishes critics and forces “patriotism” on the city’s residents, Human Rights Watch said today.
“In just five years, the Chinese government has extinguished Hong Kong’s vibrancy and replaced it with the uniformity of enforced patriotism,” said Maya Wang, Associate China director at Human Rights Watch, “Yet, many Hong Kong people, both at home and abroad, continue to resist tyranny, however subtly.”