Amnesty to shut Offices in Hong Kong because of China' disputable Security Law

Amnesty International, a nonprofit human rights organization, said on Monday (October 25th) that it planned to close its offices in Hong Kong due to the effects of China's national security law in June 2020, according to Reuters UK.

The chairman of the group's international board, Anjhula Mya Singh Bais, said its two offices in Hong Kong would be closed by the end of 2021. The ensuing crackdown on democracy and human rights groups with the backing of the new security has already led to at least 35 such groups being disbanded this year alone, Reuters added.

The controversial law criminalizes any act of secession, terrorism or what it calls collusion with outside forces, the BBC reported.

While Beijing assured Hong Kong that the rights of its people will not be taken away and that the law is essential to national security, many see this law as the beginning of the end of all freedoms and freedoms that were present in the Hong Kong company. Kong, a stark contrast to Chinese society.

Amnesty has now joined the long list of organizations in Hong Kong whose operation has been hampered by law. "Its broad and vague definition of 'national security has been used arbitrarily as a pretext to restrict human rights", one can read. Amnesty statement, quoted by Reuters.