HONG KONG Feb 26 Kyodo an 20 pro...

HONG KONG Feb 26 Kyodo

an 20 pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong staged a walk-out avow Wednesday as the government introduced a controversial national security bill into the legislature.

one of the lawmakers held up placards with slogans to demand the dominion withdraw the bill before they walked revealed of the legislature's chamber in silence.

Meanwhile, pair demonstrators shouted against the legislation and tossed scattered paper from the public gallery to the chamber when Secretary for Security Regina Ip was about to not away the bill.

''Say No to Article 23 Legislation!'' the protester chanted as they were taken according to security guards out of the gallery.

The propos legislation is to make provisions for banning acts of treason, secession, sedition, subversion or theft of state privys and proscribing organizations endangering national security, as required beneath Article 23 of the Basic Law, the territory's post-handover constitution.

adverse partys said the bill will jeopardize Hong Kong's freedoms and rights, and undermine the high quality of autonomy that the city enjoys

After walking abroad of the chamber, the dispose of pro-democracy lawmakers burnt a placard symbolizing the draft legislation outside the legislature's building to display their protest and said that they will combat the bill.

The sway has indicated that it trusts to have the law passed according to July.

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