President Biden offers temporary 'safe haven' to Hong Kong residents in the US, allowing potentially thousands of people to extend their stay in the country in response to Beijing's crackdown on democracy in the Chinese territory.
's autonomy, undermining its remaining democratic processes and institutions, imposing limits on academic freedom, and cracking down on freedom of the press," Biden said in the memo, using the acronym for the People's Republic of China.
Riot police detain a woman as anti-government protesters gather at Sha Tin Mass Transit Railway station in Hong Kong, China, Sept. 25, 2019.The vast majority of Hong Kong residents currently in the United States are expected to be eligible for the program, according to a senior administration official, but some legal conditions apply, such as individuals not having been convicted of felonies.
implemented last year to criminalize what it considers subversion, secessionism, terrorism or collusion with foreign forces.Critics say the law facilitates a crackdown on pro-democracy activists and a free press in the territory, which Beijing had agreed to allow to operate under considerable political autonomy for 50 years after it regained control.
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