International human rights groups have slammed China’s draft national security law for criminalising free speech and religious practices while granting the ruling Communist party sweeping powers to punish critics and dissenters.
The vaguely worded draft law “includes a broad and ill-defined definition of ‘national security’, and provisions that would allow prosecution of dissenting views, religious beliefs, information online, and challenges to China’s ‘cyber sovereignty’,” said Hong Kong-based group China Human Rights Defenders.
Under the new law, crimes that violate national security would include “negative cultural penetration”, threats to “sustainable economic and social development” and violations of “national internet sovereignty”.
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