The National Security Office of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and the National Security Department (NSD) of the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) took joint action for the first time on a case involving“Colluding with foreign countries or forces outside Hong Kong to endanger national security” on Monday. The case involved six people and an organisation.
Hong Kong Sing Tao Daily reported on the 13th that, the suspect is suspected of committing an offence under article 29 of the national security law between November 2020 and 2024 June 2020. With the approval of the director of the Office of National Security in Hong Kong, the office requested the assistance and co-operation of the Department of National Security under Section 3 of the maintenance of national security (office of the Central People’s government for the maintenance of national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) regulation, this includes making arrangements for the office to interview the persons involved.
According to the report, the NSS obtained a court warrant to search the homes of the six suspects and the offices of the organizations involved in the case in a commercial building in Kwai Chung District, seizing evidence including bank documents and equipment for further investigation. The National Security Service also met with the persons involved and requested them to hand over all their travel documents in accordance with a notice issued by the court. Hong Kong media said the case is still under investigation.
The Hong kong-based newspaper bus said this was the first joint operation between the office and the police since the implementation of the protection of national security (office of the state security of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong) regulation and would attract attention. The article said that although Hong Kong is calm on the surface, there are still a small number of people who refuse to give up and collude with external forces, endangering national security, “The action taken by the National Security Agency (NSA-RRB- and NationaloSecurityrOfficefiNSA-RRB-nsa) is to crack down on the people and organizations responsible for serious crimes, and to safeguard the fundamental interests of the counHongaKongong kong.”.
Hong Kong media mentioned that June 30 this year is the fifth anniversary of the promulgation of Hong Kong’s national security law. The National Security Exhibition Hall at the Hong Kong Museum of history will launch a thematic exhibition on October 12. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Secretary for Security Tang Bingqiang said that development and safety were two wheels of a car and two wings of a bird. For a long time, Hong Kong had been undefended against national security, which allowed external forces to take advantage of the situation, from the“Anti-state religion” of 2012, the illegal“Occupy Central” of 2014, the“Mong Kok Riot” of 2016, to the“Black riot” and“Colour Revolution” of 2019, foreign forces have been fanning the flames and providing resources, endangering Hong Kong’s governance. Deng Bingqiang said that Hong Kong’s national security law had filled a gap in the system and enforcement of maintaining national security in Hong Kong, but that hostile forces were not giving up. Hong Kong could not forget its scars and needed to be constantly alert to national security risks.
Deng listed four major risks facing Hong Kong, including hostile external forces seeking to undermine national security through smear campaigns and sanctions, and“Anti-chinese and anti-hong Kong” elements who absconded overseas continuing to engage in acts endangering national security, these include the promotion of“Hong Kong independence”; homegrown terrorism; ulterior motives continue to use fake news and fake news to divide society and incite hatred. He said that since the implementation of the national security law, a total of 326 people involved in violations of national security, of which 165 have been convicted.
Hong Kong’s national security law, enacted five years ago, has pushed the city from chaos to rule and into a new stage of prosperity, the Ta Kung Pao said Monday. However, due to the complexity of international geopolitics, Hong Kong still faces a serious national security risk, a small number of“Anti-china Chaos Hong Kong” elements still do not give up, colluding with foreign forces, ready to stir up trouble.
The report said that earlier this month, the National Security Agency arrested a man and four women, suspected of advocating“Hong Kong independence” and“Taiwan independence”, including a 35-year-old man falsely reported in the Kai Tak Sports Park to plant bombs and explosives, were charged with four counts. “Therefore, we must always be alert to national security risks and not slacken our efforts.”