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Hong Kong leader says security law not a threat to freedoms

by Associated Press
| May 26, 2020 12:27 AM

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's leader said Tuesday that national security legislation proposed by China's legislature will not threaten the semi-autonomous territory's civil rights, despite widespread criticism of the move as an encroachment on freedom of speech and assembly.

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