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Riot police hold pepper-spray projectiles as they disperse anti-national security law protesters in Hong Kong July 1, 2020. — Reuters pic HONG KONG, Jan 15 — Hong Kong’s security chief said today that police surveillance of communications can come under the city’s national security law, potentially giving officers broader powers of interception. John Lee, speaking at an online Legislative Council meeting on security, said the Committee of Safeguarding National Security would have oversight over such surveillance operations. “If it involves crimes endangering national security, they will be dealt with the rules and mechanisms established under the National Security Law,” Lee...
