CNA Staff, Jul 1, 2020 / 14:00 pm
The new national security law in Hong Kong is an assault on the rights of the people, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, July 1.
"When Beijing announced its intention to pass the so-called National Security Law, so-called, we were concerned. It was frightening," said Pelosi at the hearing, titled "The End of One Country, Two Systems?: Implications of Beijing's National Security Law in Hong Kong" .
"[The law] is nothing short of an all-out effort to negate the rights of the people of Hong Kong in violation of the agreements made under the 'One Country, Two Systems,' said the California Democrat.
Pelosi said that Congress had long been concerned about the law's final form, but the text of the legislation "exceeds even those horrors."