Deng Bingqiang, director of the Hong Kong Security Bureau, wrote a letter to Bloomberg to strongly oppose and condemn the misleading of his comment article on Article 23 of the Basic Law.
Comprehensive Sing Tao Daily and Ming Daily reported that Deng Bingqiang sent a letter to Bloomberg on Tuesday (March 12) to refute the vagueness of the Hong Kong New Guoan Law published on the same day.Kong's New Security Law Is workedly VAGUE's comments, saying that the article is alarmist.
Bloomberg commented that according to 23 drafts, if there are companies and organizations work for foreign forces, the Hong Kong Chief Executive can prohibit them from operating in Hong Kong, and questioned that foreign companies would cause concerns.
In this regard, Deng Bingqiang said in the letter that the remarks about the "external forces" in the comment article are inaccurate, and enterprises and organizations will not be prohibited from operating because they are "found to work for foreign forces".
He explained that the proposed crime aims to arrest those who colluded with external forces and use improper means, such as deliberately making major false statements, using violence, threatening to damage the property or reputation of others, and the intention will cause interference effects.For example, interference related individuals or organizations, including elections.Normal and legitimate business activities and external exchanges cannot be unintentional.
Deng Bingqiang believes that the article compares the law enforcement operations of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with the law enforcement operations in Australia and Singapore, and it is also seriously misleading.Eliminating the serious crimes of national security, no state will stand by, and said that the comment article also ignored the SAR responsibility for formulating 23 constitutional systems.
Deng Bingqiang said that the draft clearly stipulates that one of the basic principles of maintaining national security legislation is to respect and protect human rights; it also clearly defines the elements of criminals and stipulates that appropriate conditions for defense exemption to ensure that the public failsWill accidentally violate the law and maintain the rule of law.
He emphasized that maintaining national security, economy and human rights complement each other, and Article 23 legislation is to better safeguard the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong residents and other human rights.
Earlier, Deng Bingqiang wrote a letter to the Washington Post on Monday (March 11) to refute the article published by the newspaper on the 10th.Doubles Down on Repression's comments article content is not proper and misleading.
