Hong Kong Censorship Law
National security breaches: Hong Kong censorship law to check old films
Hong Kong: Hong Kong authorities will start scrutinizing past films for national security breaches under a tough new censorship law announced on Tuesday, a move that will give a massive blow to the region's political and artistic freedoms.
The authorities have embarked on a sweeping crackdown to root out Beijing's critics after huge and often violent democracy protests convulsed the city two years ago, reports AFP.
A new China-imposed security law and an official campaign dubbed "Patriots rule Hong Kong" has since criminalised much dissent and strangled the democracy movement, the French news agency reported.
Earlier this year, authorities had announced that the city's censorship board would check any future films for content that breached the security law.
But on Tuesday, they unveiled a new hardened censorship law which would also cover any titles that had previously been given a green light.
"Any film for public exhibition, past, present and future, will need to get approval," commerce secretary Edward Yau told reporters as quoted by AFP.
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