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Hong Kong national security law used to briefly shut down website run by opposition activists overseas

  • Ex-lawmaker Nathan Law led group of eight Hongkongers running the 2021 Hong Kong Charter project
  • Web hosting company Wix apologises for removing site ‘by mistake’ after police asked for it to be closed

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Police said elements of the website could be in contravention of Hong Kong’s national security law. Photo: Dickson Lee
Ng Kang-chung
A website run by a group of Hong Kong activists and fugitives overseas that called for the “liberation” of the city was briefly shut down, after police wrote to the company hosting it saying messages posted there breached the national security law.

Wix, the Israeli web hosting service provider, on Thursday apologised for “mistakenly removing the website”, hours after ex-lawmaker Nathan Law Kwun-chung, who ran the site, called its abrupt closure from Monday to Thursday “a clear example of China’s long arm of influence”.

Nathan Law is in self-imposed exile in London. Photo: Bloomberg
Nathan Law is in self-imposed exile in London. Photo: Bloomberg
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