The British Guardian newspaper reported that the Chinese government lost patience with Hong Kong, and began implementing "brutal brutal" laws and measures to control the island, including banning songs, withdrawing many books from libraries, and arresting parliamentarians and activists.
The newspaper said that the Beijing attack on Hong Kong is unfolding at a rapid pace, so that the daily news has become a legendary terrifying offer, as last July began to impose strict national security legislation that you did not see until Carrie Lam, head of the island government.
The Guardian says that the latest news coming from Hong Kong, that under that strict legislation the electoral eligibility of 12 pro-democracy politicians was canceled, the legislative elections were delayed by one year, issuance of arrest warrants for pro-democracy activists abroad, and the dismissal of a university professor from his university inaugurating the elimination of academic freedoms , And arrested 4 student activists on social media.
She commented that in normal times in Hong Kong, any one of these events would have caused outrage and protests, but what the newspaper described as the "massacre" now taking place there, is taking place quickly and thoroughly that even the media cannot prosecute.
Dismantled in one month
In short, the report says that Beijing has dismantled a partially free society within one month, and is trying to use its new legislation to impose global censorship on Hong Kong.
The report pointed to the protests of millions of islanders over the past year to protect what distinguishes Hong Kong from China: the constitutional system that guarantees judicial independence and the rule of law, competitive elections, freedom of expression, thought and assembly, saying that the developments of last week destroy even the appearance of those freedoms.
The newspaper added that the new legislation classifies "interference with the government’s work, obstructing or undermining it" as sabotage, which means that politics as usual can cost any elected politician to spend his life in prison, "the practice of politics as usual in Hong Kong now can pose a threat For national security. "
The report was concluded with a comment by the Academy, Victoria Tin Port Hui, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, saying that writing about Hong Kong today is similar to successive news of death, but what Beijing is currently doing with its fierce attack on the island could revitalize civil society at home, and may push back hesitant governments Abroad to defend universal freedoms.