Untitled, February 2022
Hong Kong S.A.R. China
Feb 9, 2022
On the evening of June 30, 2020, the National Security Law was officially enacted in Hong Kong. A quiet hush fell over the city. The NSL was announced a month earlier, but the details were not made available until then - not even to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, the top leader of Hong Kong. Composed of 66 articles redefining secession, subversion, terrorism, and foreign collusion, it essentially banned all forms of dissent, with sentences punishable up to life imprisonment and applicable to everyone in the world. As night fell, people carefully read through these articles, with the new reality sinking in. Hong Kong, as we've known it, has ended.