Hong Kong libraries pull books by territory’s pro-democracy activists in wake of China security law

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Modified: 04/07/2020 – 17:20 Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the territory’s libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub. Among the authors whose titles are no longer available are Joshua Wong, one of the territory’s most prominent young activists, and Tanya Chan, a well known pro-democracy lawmaker. Beijing’s new national security law was imposed on Tuesday and is the most radical shift in how the semi-autonomous territory is run since it was handed back to China by Britain in 1997. China’s authoritarian leaders...