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Booksellers must ensure titles don’t violate national security laws: Chris Tang

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Booksellers must ensure titles don’t violate national security laws: Chris Tang
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Hong Kong’s security chief has warned that booksellers are responsible for ensuring their titles do not violate national security legislation, a day after police raided two independent stores and arrested five people on suspicion of sedition.
Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung also reiterated on Thursday that the government would not compile a list of “banned books”, arguing that doing so would allow offenders to bypass the law by simply changing a title.
Tang’s comments came after...

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