Image for article An Open Letter from Falun Dafa Associations of Asia to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Regarding Article 23

HK Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa, Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee & all other officers,

Regarding the implementation of Article 23, the whole world is watching closely to see how the "pearl of the east" defends its freedom and laws established over the past century. Recently, the European Parliament, the U.S. State Department, the British General Consulate, the Foreign Ministry of Canada, the Austrian Branch of the International Human Rights Association expressed to the government of Hong ...

Image for article U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Expresses Concerns on Article 23 in Television Interview

(Clearwisdom.net) Dec. 23 was the last day before the deadline of the consultation period of the proposed legislation of Article 23 in Hong Kong. A New Tang Dynasty TV reporter interviewed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State from the U.S. State Department, Mr. J. Scott Carpenter. Mr. Carpenter is from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

Image for article Human Rights Watch: Open Letter to Hong Kong Chief Executive C.H. Tung

December 23, 2002

Dear Chief Executive Tung:

We write to express Human Rights Watch's profound concern that proposals by your government to implement Article 23 of Hong Kong's Basic Law will seriously undermine civil liberties and civil society in Hong Kong.

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