National security law a threat on Hong Kong
The study, released on Monday by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and titled “Hong Kong’s Civil Society: From an Open City to a City of Fear”, draws on 42 interviews conducted between March and June.
According to the report, “The two years of the national security law crackdown have had a devastating effect on Hong Kong’s once-dynamic civil society … The civil life of Hong Kong has been changed, even if the streets, the buildings, the institutions, the names and the titles still look the same.”
People interviewed for the report – more than half of them anonymous or identified with only a first name – include current and former lawyers, educators, social workers, trade union organisers, legislators, district councillors, Christian clergy, students, journalists,