South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Amnesty International to close its Hong Kong offices by year’s end, citing national security law” – below is their description.
Amnesty International has announced it will close its two Hong Kong offices by the end of 2021. The human rights NGO said on October 25, 2021, that its office focusing on Hong Kong affairs would shut on October 31, while another dealing with regional affairs would close by the end of the year and shift operations to other Amnesty offices in the Asia-Pacific. The global agency said a national security law China’s central government imposed on Hong Kong in June 2020 has made Amnesty’s human rights work in the city “effectively impossible.”
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.