{"id":26299,"date":"2020-01-30T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/?p=26299"},"modified":"2025-01-31T05:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:21:37","slug":"year-end-hong-kong-human-rights-review-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/year-end-hong-kong-human-rights-review-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Year-end Hong Kong Human Rights Review 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was a rapid deterioration in the human rights situation in Hong Kong in 2019, with violations of the rights to<br>freedom of peaceful assembly, expression and association as the Hong Kong authorities increasingly adopted<br>mainland China\u2019s vague and all-encompassing definition of national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with mass protests, the government first suspended and then in September formally withdrew a proposed<br>Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation Bill (the Extradition Law Amendment<br>Bill), which would have allowed the handover of persons in Hong Kong to mainland China. After months of protest,<br>pro-democracy parties had landslide wins in district elections with historically high voter turnout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CONTENTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Foreword<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Freedom of peaceful assembly\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2025\/01\/HK-Review-2019-Eng.pdf#page=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Extradition Law Amendment Bill<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2025\/01\/HK-Review-2019-Eng.pdf#page=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politically motivated prosecutions<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2025\/01\/HK-Review-2019-Eng.pdf#page=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amnestyhk.org\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2025\/01\/HK-Review-2019-Eng.pdf#page=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a rapid deterioration in the human rights situation in Hong Kong in 2019, with violations of the rights tofreedom of peaceful assembly, expression and association as the Hong Kong authorities increasingly adoptedmainland China\u2019s vague and all-encompassing definition of national security. 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