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China passes amendments outlawing insulting national flag

by Zen Soo
| October 17, 2020 4:31 AM

HONG KONG (AP) — The Standing Committee of China’s congress on Saturday passed amendments to a law that will criminalize the intentional insulting of the national flag and emblem, after anti-government protesters in Hong Kong last year desecrated the Chinese flag.

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